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 El Salvador and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 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 Cheater Slicks to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Blackbyrds. All the underground hits.
All The Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Last Poets,
The Cure,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Scrapy,
Isaac Hayes,
Joe Smooth,
Siglo XX,
Davy DMX,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Zapp,
Camberwell Now,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Banda Bassotti,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Chris & Cosey,
CMW,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Motions,
FM Einheit,
Juan Atkins,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The United States of America,
Boredoms,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nirvana,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Arthur Verocai,
Kerri Chandler,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jacques Brel,
Faust,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Mojo Men,
Gabor Szabo,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Marvin Gaye,
The Cowsills,
Minutemen,
OOIOO,
Aloha Tigers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sarah Menescal,
Bobby Byrd,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Tremeloes,
Y Pants,
The Walker Brothers,
Matthew Halsall,
The Human League,
Ludus,
The Knickerbockers,
Kenny Larkin,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Scott Walker,
Eric B and Rakim,
Icehouse,
The Zeros,
Masters at Work,
Wire,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Barracudas,
Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond.
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.