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 Equatorial Guinea and from Milan.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Jakarta.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 Kenny Larkin to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 New Christs. All the underground hits.
All Kenny Larkin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 guitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moss Icon,
The Sound,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Basic Channel,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sight & Sound,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kevin Saunderson,
Eve St. Jones,
Barrington Levy,
Mad Mike,
Underground Resistance,
Arab on Radar,
Jeff Lynne,
Excepter,
Shoche,
The Monks,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sarah Menescal,
Moebius,
Hashim,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Names,
Kool Moe Dee,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Tim Buckley,
Todd Rundgren,
Crime,
Bobby Womack,
Mandrill,
Con Funk Shun,
Funky Four + One,
The Sonics,
MDC,
Kenny Larkin,
Eurythmics,
Monolake,
Lungfish,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gastr Del Sol,
Peter and Kerry,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Minny Pops,
Subhumans,
Scientists,
Traffic Nightmare,
Radio Birdman,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Country Teasers,
The Angels of Light,
Procol Harum,
Dawn Penn,
David Bowie,
Johnny Clarke,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Amon Düül,
Roger Hodgson,
Don Cherry,
The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers.
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.