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 Slovenia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Crime to the dance 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 Saccharine Trust. All the underground hits.
All Dead Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra 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?
Leonard Cohen,
Arab on Radar,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sällskapet,
The Victims,
Aswad,
Ituana,
Erasure,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kas Product,
Ten City,
Junior Murvin,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Barracudas,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Anthony Braxton,
Pantaleimon,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sun City Girls,
Bobby Sherman,
Amon Düül II,
The Monochrome Set,
Half Japanese,
Connie Case,
Joyce Sims,
The Walker Brothers,
Spoonie Gee,
Frankie Knuckles,
Yaz,
The Doobie Brothers,
Funky Four + One,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Mojo Men,
L. Decosne,
Bad Manners,
Delon & Dalcan,
Curtis Mayfield,
Warren Ellis,
Rakim,
Jesper Dahlback,
Technova,
The Real Kids,
Parry Music,
Model 500,
Deakin,
Johnny Clarke,
Outsiders,
The Offenders,
Sandy B,
JFA,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The United States of America,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
48th St. Collective,
Mars,
Derrick Morgan,
Bluetip,
Roxette,
Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks.
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.