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 United Kingdom and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Massinfluence to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All Moss Icon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cramps 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lou Christie,
Kurtis Blow,
Nils Olav,
Mars,
Supertramp,
Hasil Adkins,
DJ Sneak,
Echospace,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Cowsills,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bronski Beat,
Iggy Pop,
Alison Limerick,
ABC,
The Walker Brothers,
Avey Tare,
Sister Nancy,
Zero Boys,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Birthday Party,
MC5,
Judy Mowatt,
the Sonics,
Hoover,
Ituana,
Schoolly D,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Funkadelic,
Eric B and Rakim,
Scientists,
Bootsy Collins,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Country Teasers,
World's Most,
Delta 5,
Jeff Mills,
The Monochrome Set,
The Searchers,
Severed Heads,
Mandrill,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kaleidoscope,
Maleditus Sound,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Masters at Work,
Das Ding,
Camberwell Now,
Simply Red,
Vainqueur,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Stooges,
Circle Jerks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tim Buckley,
Alice Coltrane,
The Golliwogs,
Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia.
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.