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 Bulgaria and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Jeff Lynne to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All Oppenheimer Analysis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
Quadrant,
Oneida,
ABC,
Von Mondo,
Suburban Knight,
Amon Düül II,
Erasure,
Q and Not U,
Stereo Dub,
Fela Kuti,
Qualms,
Hashim,
Moby Grape,
Fear,
Danielle Patucci,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Doobie Brothers,
Alice Coltrane,
Altered Images,
The Happenings,
Black Sheep,
Thee Headcoats,
the Bar-Kays,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Maleditus Sound,
A Certain Ratio,
Sam Rivers,
Section 25,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
X-Ray Spex,
Y Pants,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sister Nancy,
The Litter,
the Soft Cell,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
10cc,
Depeche Mode,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cramps,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Blake Baxter,
Das Ding,
Rapeman,
The Blackbyrds,
F. McDonald,
The Star Department,
The Pop Group,
The Fugs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Walker Brothers,
The Fuzztones,
Unrelated Segments,
Peter and Kerry,
Bauhaus,
Mary Jane Girls,
Con Funk Shun,
Infiniti,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.