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 Mongolia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Goldenarms to the techno 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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Lightning Bolt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Happenings,
The Skatalites,
R.M.O.,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Iggy Pop,
David Bowie,
F. McDonald,
10cc,
The Star Department,
Audionom,
The Golliwogs,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Hashim,
Magma,
China Crisis,
Dennis Brown,
La Düsseldorf,
Althea and Donna,
Soft Machine,
The Cramps,
The Durutti Column,
Procol Harum,
Max Romeo,
John Coltrane,
Los Fastidios,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Flipper,
Grauzone,
Chris Corsano,
H. Thieme,
Albert Ayler,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Altered Images,
The Angels of Light,
Dual Sessions,
Lightning Bolt,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Remains,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Wings,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Easy Going,
Nirvana,
Drive Like Jehu,
Surgeon,
New Age Steppers,
The New Christs,
Kas Product,
Half Japanese,
Grey Daturas,
X-101,
E-Dancer,
The Pop Group,
kango's stein massive,
The Tremeloes,
Magazine,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Quadrant,
Minor Threat,
Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims.
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.