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 Cameroon and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Paris.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Marshall Jefferson to the grime 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 The Remains. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lakeside,
Swell Maps,
Nick Fraelich,
Michelle Simonal,
Davy DMX,
Nico,
Stereo Dub,
Half Japanese,
The Gap Band,
Erykah Badu,
The Monochrome Set,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Black Bananas,
Alison Limerick,
The Litter,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Subhumans,
Dave Gahan,
PIL,
FM Einheit,
LL Cool J,
Khruangbin,
Average White Band,
B.T. Express,
The Fall,
the Soft Cell,
the Swans,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sonny Sharrock,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ituana,
Index,
Cecil Taylor,
The Music Machine,
Rites of Spring,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sällskapet,
Minor Threat,
Brothers Johnson,
Avey Tare,
Sex Pistols,
Circle Jerks,
The Sonics,
Bill Wells,
Fear,
Roxy Music,
Wings,
F. McDonald,
Gichy Dan,
Patti Smith,
ABC,
The Cure,
Crispian St. Peters,
Kayak,
Yellowson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Model 500,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
CMW,
Icehouse,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.