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 Philippines and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Mars to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Misunderstood. All the underground hits.
All Camouflage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Rotary Connection,
Can,
Byron Stingily,
Dawn Penn,
Newcleus,
Faust,
Pierre Henry,
Public Image Ltd.,
FM Einheit,
Scan 7,
Jeru the Damaja,
Half Japanese,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sun City Girls,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Monochrome Set,
John Holt,
Laurel Aitken,
Malaria!,
Erasure,
Kenny Larkin,
Nas,
Stockholm Monsters,
Chris & Cosey,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Second Layer,
John Foxx,
The Doobie Brothers,
Marine Girls,
Skaos,
Kerrie Biddell,
the Human League,
Agent Orange,
Average White Band,
Marcia Griffiths,
Eric Copeland,
Bobby Womack,
Flash Fearless,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Steve Hackett,
Eric Dolphy,
Glambeats Corp.,
Quando Quango,
Radiopuhelimet,
Metal Thangz,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gang Green,
Morten Harket,
Kayak,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
David Axelrod,
Trumans Water,
Maleditus Sound,
Mary Jane Girls,
the Germs,
Mantronix,
Talk Talk,
Royal Trux,
Kas Product,
the Association, the Association, the Association, the Association.
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.