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 Antigua and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lyon.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Freddie Wadling to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echo & the Bunnymen 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Human League,
Banda Bassotti,
Pole,
Rotary Connection,
The Toasters,
Simply Red,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
John Lydon,
Ludus,
Deakin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Spoonie Gee,
DJ Style,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Yellowson,
Babytalk,
The Sound,
Magma,
Donny Hathaway,
Johnny Osbourne,
the Fania All-Stars,
John Cale,
The Saints,
Scrapy,
Jacques Brel,
Mission of Burma,
Masters at Work,
the Association,
Skriet,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
E-Dancer,
Bobby Womack,
Boredoms,
Sun City Girls,
Ronnie Foster,
Black Pus,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bobby Sherman,
Blancmange,
Crime,
Von Mondo,
Panda Bear,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Gories,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Intrusion,
In Retrospect,
Reagan Youth,
Amazonics,
Porter Ricks,
Accadde A,
EPMD,
Robert Wyatt,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Popol Vuh,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman.
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.