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 Zimbabwe and from Delhi.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South 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 Q65 to the dance 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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Wake,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Techniques,
The Moleskins,
Hot Snakes,
Neil Young,
Spandau Ballet,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Blancmange,
Unrelated Segments,
Marshall Jefferson,
Procol Harum,
the Association,
R.M.O.,
Little Man,
Gang of Four,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Leaves,
Tres Demented,
Simply Red,
Average White Band,
Yazoo,
The Dead C,
Eli Mardock,
Lakeside,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
New York Dolls,
Suburban Knight,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Ronan,
Kaleidoscope,
Ten City,
Jesper Dahlback,
Skarface,
the Human League,
Scrapy,
A Certain Ratio,
John Cale,
Sandy B,
Ponytail,
Peter & Gordon,
Severed Heads,
Chrome,
Aloha Tigers,
Tom Boy,
The Cure,
DJ Style,
Radiopuhelimet,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Junior Murvin,
The Black Dice,
Niagra,
Babytalk,
Black Bananas,
The Smiths,
Depeche Mode,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Stockholm Monsters,
Duran Duran,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.