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 Germany and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Kool Moe Dee to the grunge 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 The Victims. All the underground hits.
All Angels of Light & Akron/Family tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantaleimon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
DNA,
Sex Pistols,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Television Personalities,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kurtis Blow,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Negative Approach,
Jerry's Kids,
a-ha,
Neil Young,
The Five Americans,
Hardrive,
The Remains,
New Order,
Quando Quango,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sam Rivers,
Bauhaus,
T.S.O.L.,
Amazonics,
Lucky Dragons,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ossler,
Black Moon,
Archie Shepp,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Boz Scaggs,
Spandau Ballet,
Echospace,
Intrusion,
Ronnie Foster,
Skaos,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Black Sheep,
Leonard Cohen,
the Bar-Kays,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Soul II Soul,
Buzzcocks,
One Last Wish,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Nas,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Model 500,
The Raincoats,
Pagans,
Mission of Burma,
Fugazi,
Rites of Spring,
H. Thieme,
Lou Christie,
Sarah Menescal,
Derrick Morgan,
The Martian,
These Immortal Souls,
Tom Boy,
Isaac Hayes,
K-Klass,
Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell.
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.