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 Zambia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 mellotron 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 Amazonics to the rock 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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bobby Byrd,
Robert Görl,
Deadbeat,
Byron Stingily,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Morten Harket,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Joyce Sims,
David Axelrod,
D'Angelo,
The Star Department,
Erykah Badu,
Das Ding,
Depeche Mode,
Fear,
Peter and Kerry,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Grass Roots,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Theoretical Girls,
Bush Tetras,
Isaac Hayes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Radio Birdman,
Von Mondo,
The Real Kids,
X-102,
Black Pus,
Davy DMX,
Minor Threat,
Negative Approach,
The Red Krayola,
Siglo XX,
Faust,
Sonic Youth,
The Names,
Aswad,
Traffic Nightmare,
Fluxion,
Massinfluence,
Lalann,
Radiohead,
Al Stewart,
Kas Product,
The Move,
Altered Images,
Gang Gang Dance,
Eric Copeland,
The Monochrome Set,
Average White Band,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Mantronix,
Gang Starr,
Surgeon,
David McCallum,
Crime,
The Slits,
Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion.
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.