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 Ireland and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Sound to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Be Bop Deluxe,
ABC,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eric Copeland,
Main Source,
Franke,
Harry Pussy,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Soft Cell,
Minny Pops,
Scan 7,
Roxette,
The Kinks,
Aswad,
Skaos,
Malaria!,
John Lydon,
Severed Heads,
Joe Smooth,
Robert Wyatt,
Black Flag,
FM Einheit,
CMW,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bizarre Inc.,
Second Layer,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Raincoats,
Procol Harum,
Grauzone,
Average White Band,
Johnny Clarke,
Sällskapet,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Walker Brothers,
Morten Harket,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Pierre Henry,
The Names,
B.T. Express,
Soul Sonic Force,
Leonard Cohen,
Wings,
Moebius,
Half Japanese,
The Last Poets,
Swans,
Excepter,
David Axelrod,
Rufus Thomas,
Gichy Dan,
Infiniti,
Oneida,
Fela Kuti,
Jerry's Kids,
Sun Ra,
Intrusion,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.