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 Moldova and from Lyon.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Salvador.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 John Lydon to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Surgeon,
Colin Newman,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Barclay James Harvest,
Camouflage,
Thee Headcoats,
Unrelated Segments,
T. Rex,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jacques Brel,
Trumans Water,
Leonard Cohen,
The Barracudas,
Derrick May,
The Cure,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pylon,
Monks,
Black Moon,
Reuben Wilson,
The Moody Blues,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
ABBA,
Gichy Dan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kayak,
Easy Going,
Grey Daturas,
Cybotron,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Davy DMX,
This Heat,
The Star Department,
Sound Behaviour,
Barbara Tucker,
Jeff Lynne,
Visage,
Aloha Tigers,
Soul II Soul,
Mars,
Mad Mike,
Sugar Minott,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joe Smooth,
The Sound,
Tom Boy,
Model 500,
Nick Fraelich,
Scan 7,
KRS-One,
Amon Düül II,
The Detroit Cobras,
Peter & Gordon,
The Velvet Underground,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rotary Connection,
Deadbeat,
James White and The Blacks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lou Reed,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.