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 Argentina and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Faust to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All Eric B and Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Radiohead,
Pole,
Dual Sessions,
Tom Boy,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ultimate Spinach,
Eden Ahbez,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Delta 5,
Index,
The Dirtbombs,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The United States of America,
Quando Quango,
Brass Construction,
The Last Poets,
Monks,
Moss Icon,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Boredoms,
Public Image Ltd.,
Absolute Body Control,
The Durutti Column,
Mad Mike,
Spoonie Gee,
Cluster,
Ponytail,
Jeff Lynne,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Moleskins,
Prince Buster,
The Knickerbockers,
JFA,
X-Ray Spex,
The Neon Judgement,
Kenny Larkin,
Graham Central Station,
Ronan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Arthur Verocai,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Offenders,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Surgeon,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Albert Ayler,
Dorothy Ashby,
Skaos,
Severed Heads,
DNA,
The Busters,
Groovy Waters,
Heaven 17,
Rhythm & Sound,
Oneida,
Skriet,
CMW,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.