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 Grenada and from Lyon.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Soul Sonic Force 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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Lafayette Afro Rock Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
The Red Krayola,
Tim Buckley,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Panda Bear,
The Kinks,
Sexual Harrassment,
Depeche Mode,
Quadrant,
Ice-T,
Deepchord,
Arcadia,
Gil Scott Heron,
Soulsonic Force,
Byron Stingily,
Model 500,
Cecil Taylor,
The Durutti Column,
John Holt,
Eric B and Rakim,
Liliput,
Magma,
Guru Guru,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Mojo Men,
Pet Shop Boys,
Nation of Ulysses,
Thompson Twins,
Neil Young,
Yellowson,
Peter & Gordon,
Blancmange,
Dennis Brown,
Kayak,
Altered Images,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Skarface,
Lightning Bolt,
The Blackbyrds,
Grandmaster Flash,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Flag,
kango's stein massive,
Agitation Free,
Robert Görl,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Buzzcocks,
Soul II Soul,
the Association,
The Monks,
Das Ding,
The Misunderstood,
Prince Buster,
Television Personalities,
Swans,
Fugazi,
Index,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express.
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.