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 Suriname and from Tokyo.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ultra Naté 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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bad Manners,
Wire,
Stockholm Monsters,
Main Source,
Bobby Byrd,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Velvet Underground,
This Heat,
Silicon Teens,
DJ Sneak,
Dorothy Ashby,
AZ,
Eden Ahbez,
Shoche,
The Flesh Eaters,
Au Pairs,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Monochrome Set,
Lower 48,
Jeff Lynne,
Mission of Burma,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kas Product,
Suicide,
China Crisis,
The Toasters,
Curtis Mayfield,
Agitation Free,
Chris Corsano,
Cameo,
The Cowsills,
Aural Exciters,
John Foxx,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Doors,
The Misunderstood,
The Motions,
10cc,
Fad Gadget,
Marine Girls,
Ultra Naté,
The Angels of Light,
Echospace,
Basic Channel,
Andrew Hill,
Average White Band,
Robert Wyatt,
Agent Orange,
Jimmy McGriff,
Roger Hodgson,
Black Flag,
The Slackers,
Nik Kershaw,
Royal Trux,
Funkadelic,
Amon Düül II,
Underground Resistance,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.