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 Slovakia and from Tokyo.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Mars to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Arab on Radar. All the underground hits.
All Scratch Acid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Foxx,
Trumans Water,
The Zeros,
Ronnie Foster,
Section 25,
Minny Pops,
The Dirtbombs,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Misunderstood,
The Offenders,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
LL Cool J,
Lee Hazlewood,
Duran Duran,
Bobby Sherman,
Popol Vuh,
Joe Finger,
Sällskapet,
Suicide,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Spoonie Gee,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Audionom,
Traffic Nightmare,
Khruangbin,
The United States of America,
Main Source,
New Order,
E-Dancer,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Intrusion,
Sun Ra,
Altered Images,
Rapeman,
Freddie Wadling,
Brand Nubian,
Roxette,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Monochrome Set,
Metal Thangz,
Radiopuhelimet,
Tim Buckley,
The Fortunes,
The Raincoats,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Prince Buster,
Gabor Szabo,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Depeche Mode,
The Monks,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gil Scott Heron,
Gang Gang Dance,
Pierre Henry,
Alison Limerick,
Blancmange,
Flash Fearless,
Tres Demented,
DNA,
Howard Jones,
Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp.
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.