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 Denmark and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Mexico City.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sam Rivers to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faust 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nik Kershaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Jerry Gold Smith,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Crash Course in Science,
Pere Ubu,
FM Einheit,
Susan Cadogan,
Be Bop Deluxe,
K-Klass,
Jawbox,
The Walker Brothers,
Duran Duran,
Clear Light,
Barry Ungar,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lalann,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Tubeway Army,
The Golliwogs,
The Evens,
One Last Wish,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Funky Four + One,
Bronski Beat,
The Fortunes,
Kurtis Blow,
Boogie Down Productions,
Tommy Roe,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Country Teasers,
Adolescents,
Yazoo,
Motorama,
Todd Rundgren,
10cc,
Masters at Work,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Peter and Kerry,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bobby Byrd,
Rites of Spring,
Leonard Cohen,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Aswad,
Jacob Miller,
Stereo Dub,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eurythmics,
Lungfish,
The Residents,
Slave,
Erykah Badu,
Ossler,
Unwound,
Bobby Sherman,
The Blues Magoos,
The Moody Blues,
Minutemen,
Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls.
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.