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 Poland and from Stockholm.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Toronto.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Crash Course in Science to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Fania All-Stars,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Average White Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Simply Red,
Lalann,
Connie Case,
Sound Behaviour,
Aural Exciters,
Eric Dolphy,
Neil Young,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Zeros,
Nick Fraelich,
Magazine,
Fear,
The Durutti Column,
Fat Boys,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Marmalade,
Banda Bassotti,
Adolescents,
Gichy Dan,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Dual Sessions,
Blancmange,
Max Romeo,
Bootsy Collins,
Smog,
Goldenarms,
Babytalk,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Section 25,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bauhaus,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Roxette,
Crime,
Stiv Bators,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Happenings,
Whodini,
Angry Samoans,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Doors,
Cybotron,
Flash Fearless,
Terry Callier,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Deakin,
Lyres,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Tim Buckley,
Y Pants,
Glambeats Corp.,
Henry Cow,
The Angels of Light,
Von Mondo,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.