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 Ecuador and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 oboe 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 K-Klass to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Fortunes. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spoonie Gee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Stiv Bators,
Saccharine Trust,
Chris Corsano,
The Residents,
Thompson Twins,
Dark Day,
Liliput,
The Neon Judgement,
Monolake,
Warren Ellis,
Man Eating Sloth,
Joy Division,
The Modern Lovers,
Livin' Joy,
Lower 48,
Reagan Youth,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sun Ra,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Malaria!,
Pharoah Sanders,
CMW,
Todd Terry,
La Düsseldorf,
This Heat,
Sonic Youth,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tommy Roe,
X-Ray Spex,
Scientists,
Kas Product,
Bill Near,
Deepchord,
The Victims,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Colin Newman,
Jimmy McGriff,
DJ Style,
Scratch Acid,
Qualms,
Piero Umiliani,
ABC,
Shoche,
Connie Case,
Country Teasers,
The Stooges,
Lightning Bolt,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Cowsills,
Warsaw,
The Sonics,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Deakin,
Guru Guru,
Moebius,
Archie Shepp,
The Misunderstood,
Donny Hathaway,
Lebanon Hanover,
David Bowie,
Quadrant,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.