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 Syria and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Beijing.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Leonard Cohen to the dance 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lungfish,
The Birthday Party,
Joey Negro,
Skarface,
Iggy Pop,
Fatback Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Quadrant,
Vainqueur,
Young Marble Giants,
Matthew Bourne,
The Human League,
Todd Terry,
Althea and Donna,
The Offenders,
Gichy Dan,
Moby Grape,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Audionom,
The Modern Lovers,
Flamin' Groovies,
Eddi Front,
the Sonics,
Supertramp,
Black Pus,
Spoonie Gee,
Can,
Brothers Johnson,
Parry Music,
Eli Mardock,
The Black Dice,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sandy B,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
China Crisis,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Underground Resistance,
Agitation Free,
Howard Jones,
Vladislav Delay,
Theoretical Girls,
Shuggie Otis,
a-ha,
Danielle Patucci,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Fear,
Skriet,
Sonic Youth,
The Vogues,
The Doobie Brothers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Harry Pussy,
Metal Thangz,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Leonard Cohen,
Joensuu 1685,
Jesper Dahlback,
Nirvana,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.