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 Uganda and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Donald Fagen 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 Rapeman to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Moby Grape tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Move record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kas Product,
Duran Duran,
The Smiths,
Kaleidoscope,
Depeche Mode,
The Knickerbockers,
Agitation Free,
Jandek,
Grandmaster Flash,
Dawn Penn,
Gang Gang Dance,
Urselle,
Sex Pistols,
Pulsallama,
Piero Umiliani,
Cameo,
the Sonics,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Busters,
Crime,
The Divine Comedy,
Funky Four + One,
Johnny Clarke,
The Associates,
Dave Gahan,
Boz Scaggs,
Dual Sessions,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Sound,
Roger Hodgson,
Steve Hackett,
Mission of Burma,
Tears for Fears,
The Index,
D'Angelo,
Mo-Dettes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Magazine,
Black Pus,
The Move,
The Seeds,
Delta 5,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Cecil Taylor,
The Fuzztones,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Golliwogs,
Boogie Down Productions,
Cluster,
Lightning Bolt,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Slackers,
Bill Near,
cv313,
Thee Headcoats,
Ohio Players,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lee Hazlewood,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.