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 Barbados and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 theremin 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 Oneida to the dance 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 The Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All Erykah Badu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Saccharine Trust,
Minor Threat,
Ultra Naté,
Clear Light,
Crash Course in Science,
OOIOO,
Urselle,
Arab on Radar,
Sällskapet,
Drive Like Jehu,
Q and Not U,
Unwound,
Suburban Knight,
Jacob Miller,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Electric Prunes,
Kaleidoscope,
Bob Dylan,
Intrusion,
Robert Görl,
The Moleskins,
Soft Machine,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Grauzone,
The Saints,
Negative Approach,
The Velvet Underground,
The Red Krayola,
The Neon Judgement,
David McCallum,
John Coltrane,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Technova,
Neil Young,
Connie Case,
Marmalade,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The J.B.'s,
Tommy Roe,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lalann,
Wasted Youth,
Eric Dolphy,
8 Eyed Spy,
Alton Ellis,
Ronnie Foster,
Main Source,
Brass Construction,
Echospace,
the Bar-Kays,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rhythm & Sound,
Icehouse,
CMW,
The Birthday Party,
Camouflage,
Popol Vuh,
Eurythmics,
Crispy Ambulance,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.