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 Rwanda and from Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 Minny Pops to the jazz 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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Yellowson,
Babytalk,
Gang Gang Dance,
Neil Young,
The Alarm Clocks,
Suicide,
Niagra,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bad Manners,
Peter and Kerry,
Black Flag,
Rod Modell,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Human League,
Boredoms,
Roger Hodgson,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
A Certain Ratio,
Shoche,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
One Last Wish,
Lalann,
Godley & Creme,
Rosa Yemen,
Chris Corsano,
Absolute Body Control,
The Music Machine,
Anakelly,
New Order,
Oneida,
Bill Wells,
Stockholm Monsters,
Khruangbin,
Deadbeat,
The Shadows of Knight,
Beasts of Bourbon,
the Fania All-Stars,
Kurtis Blow,
The Gap Band,
Man Parrish,
Cheater Slicks,
Icehouse,
Marine Girls,
Bill Near,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Yaz,
Lakeside,
Anthony Braxton,
Alice Coltrane,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
D'Angelo,
Agitation Free,
The Monks,
Jandek,
Negative Approach,
Bobby Womack,
Pussy Galore,
Little Man,
The Red Krayola,
Flipper,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.