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 Estonia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Gong to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Marvin Gaye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan 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 chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Real Kids,
Clear Light,
Negative Approach,
Frankie Knuckles,
Yazoo,
The Tremeloes,
Robert Hood,
JFA,
Alphaville,
Quadrant,
The Fugs,
Crispy Ambulance,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Gap Band,
The Human League,
Roger Hodgson,
The New Christs,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Hasil Adkins,
The Wake,
Reuben Wilson,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Dead C,
Deepchord,
Public Image Ltd.,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
kango's stein massive,
Donald Byrd,
Man Eating Sloth,
Unrelated Segments,
Loose Ends,
Derrick Morgan,
Pere Ubu,
Funky Four + One,
Echospace,
The Evens,
The Golliwogs,
The American Breed,
The Knickerbockers,
The Neon Judgement,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Liliput,
Boredoms,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gichy Dan,
Todd Terry,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Slackers,
Technova,
Godley & Creme,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Das Ding,
The Blues Magoos,
One Last Wish,
Funkadelic,
The Electric Prunes,
Tubeway Army,
Todd Rundgren,
Aaron Thompson,
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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.