Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Kyrgyzstan and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Roxette to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rosa Yemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vainqueur,
Deadbeat,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Sound,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lou Reed,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Michelle Simonal,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ludus,
The Gories,
Nick Fraelich,
Mary Jane Girls,
Angry Samoans,
Max Romeo,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Rekid,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Shoche,
Grandmaster Flash,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Essential Logic,
Procol Harum,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Aural Exciters,
LL Cool J,
The Searchers,
Scratch Acid,
Soulsonic Force,
The Dirtbombs,
Aloha Tigers,
Roger Hodgson,
Quadrant,
Grauzone,
The Associates,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jeff Mills,
Carl Craig,
Mars,
Con Funk Shun,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Sonics,
Mo-Dettes,
Black Bananas,
Jimmy McGriff,
Minnie Riperton,
Tropical Tobacco,
Trumans Water,
Goldenarms,
Pierre Henry,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Magazine,
Wings,
Todd Rundgren,
Sugar Minott,
Eurythmics,
Pantaleimon,
the Swans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.