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 Rwanda and from Stockholm.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Kas Product to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Prince Buster. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott Heron 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Knickerbockers,
The Barracudas,
Index,
The Walker Brothers,
Kas Product,
The Leaves,
Icehouse,
Scientists,
ABBA,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
DNA,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ossler,
Q and Not U,
Harmonia,
Graham Central Station,
Radiopuhelimet,
Eric Dolphy,
The Buckinghams,
Nation of Ulysses,
Flamin' Groovies,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pole,
Make Up,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Sonics,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Johnny Clarke,
T.S.O.L.,
Pulsallama,
Yusef Lateef,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
U.S. Maple,
Y Pants,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Busters,
the Slits,
Robert Görl,
Roxette,
Warsaw,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Barbara Tucker,
Rotary Connection,
Bill Near,
Colin Newman,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
FM Einheit,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Theoretical Girls,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
MDC,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Stiv Bators,
Soul II Soul,
Depeche Mode,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Vainqueur,
Rites of Spring,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
X-101,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.