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 Maldives and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Pet Shop Boys to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barrington Levy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gastr Del Sol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Don Cherry,
Frankie Knuckles,
Section 25,
Ponytail,
Grauzone,
Faust,
Isaac Hayes,
Radiopuhelimet,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Yaz,
the Fania All-Stars,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Moebius,
Soft Cell,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Flash Fearless,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Delon & Dalcan,
Public Image Ltd.,
Skriet,
Kurtis Blow,
Amazonics,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Whodini,
Dave Gahan,
Deadbeat,
Brothers Johnson,
The Monochrome Set,
Bootsy Collins,
Stiv Bators,
the Bar-Kays,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Susan Cadogan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rekid,
Max Romeo,
Michelle Simonal,
Dennis Brown,
Robert Hood,
John Lydon,
Marc Almond,
Joyce Sims,
Gong,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Mary Jane Girls,
Saccharine Trust,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Scion,
Vladislav Delay,
The Offenders,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Spoonie Gee,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gregory Isaacs,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Fortunes,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.