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 France and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Clear Light to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters 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 disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 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?
Thompson Twins,
X-Ray Spex,
Basic Channel,
New York Dolls,
Althea and Donna,
Kenny Larkin,
Lucky Dragons,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bobby Sherman,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Modern Lovers,
Angry Samoans,
Crispy Ambulance,
Intrusion,
Nico,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Neon Judgement,
The Misunderstood,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Roxy Music,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ronnie Foster,
Sam Rivers,
David McCallum,
Stereo Dub,
Cluster,
the Association,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Funkadelic,
Al Stewart,
Sällskapet,
the Slits,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Second Layer,
Technova,
K-Klass,
Morten Harket,
Fela Kuti,
Radiohead,
Kerrie Biddell,
Hardrive,
New Age Steppers,
Toni Rubio,
H. Thieme,
The Fuzztones,
Essential Logic,
Terrestrial Tones,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Marcia Griffiths,
Josef K,
Bush Tetras,
the Fania All-Stars,
Amon Düül,
Fluxion,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Delta 5,
10cc,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
L. Decosne,
Letta Mbulu,
Bill Near,
Robert Görl,
Sonic Youth,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.