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 Papua New Guinea and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Jerry's Kids to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Steve Hackett. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maurizio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Young Marble Giants,
Circle Jerks,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Barbara Tucker,
Aaron Thompson,
Alton Ellis,
Eddi Front,
Kevin Saunderson,
Curtis Mayfield,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Erasure,
The Residents,
Derrick Morgan,
Thompson Twins,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
China Crisis,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Tubeway Army,
Scott Walker,
Freddie Wadling,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Newcleus,
cv313,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Nico,
Chris Corsano,
June Days,
Cymande,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Litter,
The Motions,
Bobby Byrd,
John Lydon,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tim Buckley,
Anakelly,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Mandrill,
The Count Five,
Funky Four + One,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
June of 44,
Kayak,
The Human League,
K-Klass,
Tres Demented,
the Soft Cell,
Duran Duran,
Basic Channel,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Essential Logic,
Maurizio,
Lower 48,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Gregory Isaacs,
Derrick May,
The Sound, The Sound, The Sound, The Sound.
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.