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 Malta and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Scientists. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gladiators record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Fear,
Procol Harum,
Jawbox,
Television,
The Happenings,
Scott Walker,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Cosmic Jokers,
Royal Trux,
Tropical Tobacco,
Circle Jerks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
This Heat,
Warren Ellis,
Groovy Waters,
Organ,
The J.B.'s,
Carl Craig,
Boz Scaggs,
Tom Boy,
The Cramps,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Hashim,
Al Stewart,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Music Machine,
Lou Christie,
L. Decosne,
Sugar Minott,
Bob Dylan,
Sixth Finger,
The Five Americans,
The Blackbyrds,
The Fire Engines,
Parry Music,
Nirvana,
Josef K,
Graham Central Station,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sun City Girls,
Jeru the Damaja,
Popol Vuh,
Second Layer,
Harry Pussy,
Section 25,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Aural Exciters,
Chris & Cosey,
Adolescents,
Cymande,
Electric Prunes,
Man Parrish,
Los Fastidios,
Soft Cell,
Goldenarms,
the Germs,
Fat Boys,
DNA,
Blancmange,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.