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 Austria and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Gastr Del Sol to the disco 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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers 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 mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joey Negro record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
Tears for Fears,
Gastr Del Sol,
Echospace,
Soulsonic Force,
Ultravox,
Eurythmics,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ronan,
Girls At Our Best!,
Rufus Thomas,
The Smiths,
Anthony Braxton,
Rites of Spring,
Blake Baxter,
The Shadows of Knight,
Man Parrish,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
cv313,
10cc,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Al Stewart,
Crash Course in Science,
Black Bananas,
Ponytail,
Cluster,
Tubeway Army,
Boogie Down Productions,
Avey Tare,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Fear,
Audionom,
Pere Ubu,
the Sonics,
Dual Sessions,
Bobby Sherman,
Matthew Halsall,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Tomorrow,
Talk Talk,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Moody Blues,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Barbara Tucker,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joy Division,
Model 500,
Pole,
Gil Scott Heron,
Desert Stars,
Visage,
the Swans,
D'Angelo,
Rhythm & Sound,
La Düsseldorf,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Marvin Gaye,
Camouflage,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.