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 Congo and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 harpsichord 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 Talk Talk to the funk 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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba 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 clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
The United States of America,
Eden Ahbez,
Gong,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lou Reed,
The Standells,
The Gladiators,
Soft Machine,
The Modern Lovers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Monks,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Nirvana,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Letta Mbulu,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Young Rascals,
CMW,
Supertramp,
The Monochrome Set,
The Index,
Audionom,
Liliput,
Mars,
Soul II Soul,
The Move,
Jesper Dahlback,
Soulsonic Force,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Thompson Twins,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sex Pistols,
Bill Wells,
The Tremeloes,
Bobby Womack,
Bronski Beat,
Aural Exciters,
Faraquet,
Qualms,
Girls At Our Best!,
Cymande,
Swell Maps,
Jandek,
Lightning Bolt,
Nas,
The Grass Roots,
Cameo,
Q65,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Doobie Brothers,
H. Thieme,
Khruangbin,
Pet Shop Boys,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Electric Prunes,
Ten City,
Peter & Gordon,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Unrelated Segments,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.