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 Portugal and from Columbus.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lagos.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Gabor Szabo to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
H. Thieme,
Main Source,
Eden Ahbez,
Ultimate Spinach,
Avey Tare,
Deadbeat,
Ken Boothe,
Leonard Cohen,
Johnny Clarke,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lyres,
the Fania All-Stars,
Byron Stingily,
Graham Central Station,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sound Behaviour,
Nas,
Bush Tetras,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Magma,
Pere Ubu,
Malaria!,
Whodini,
Masters at Work,
Essential Logic,
Skaos,
Symarip,
Darondo,
Schoolly D,
The Knickerbockers,
The Walker Brothers,
Liliput,
The Stooges,
the Swans,
Hardrive,
Alton Ellis,
Echospace,
Quando Quango,
The Remains,
Quantec,
Underground Resistance,
Ossler,
Erykah Badu,
Yazoo,
The Shadows of Knight,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Y Pants,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
ABC,
Henry Cow,
Procol Harum,
Rod Modell,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Unwound,
Black Pus,
The Index,
Prince Buster,
Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science.
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.