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 Australia and from Columbus.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bremen.
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 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 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 Ossler to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Depeche Mode tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Standells,
Blake Baxter,
Sam Rivers,
Max Romeo,
Deadbeat,
Bob Dylan,
Black Pus,
DJ Sneak,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Eric B and Rakim,
Minnie Riperton,
Bill Near,
Erykah Badu,
Freddie Wadling,
Quadrant,
The Misunderstood,
The Fugs,
The Slackers,
The Pretty Things,
Andrew Hill,
Pierre Henry,
Monks,
Massinfluence,
John Foxx,
The Shadows of Knight,
Joyce Sims,
Man Parrish,
Ronnie Foster,
The Seeds,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Toasters,
The Blues Magoos,
The Martian,
Oneida,
Spoonie Gee,
Chrome,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ten City,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Soul II Soul,
Brand Nubian,
Duran Duran,
Cybotron,
Minny Pops,
These Immortal Souls,
Public Image Ltd.,
Joe Smooth,
Icehouse,
The Young Rascals,
The Searchers,
Model 500,
Soft Cell,
Rufus Thomas,
Gang of Four,
New Age Steppers,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Yazoo,
Piero Umiliani,
Roger Hodgson,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Gun Club,
cv313,
Metal Thangz,
Television Personalities,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.