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 Cyprus and from Houston.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 synthesizer 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 Ponytail to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Agent Orange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
The Kinks,
Sällskapet,
Anthony Braxton,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bauhaus,
World's Most,
The Star Department,
Maleditus Sound,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mark Hollis,
This Heat,
Patti Smith,
Qualms,
Amon Düül,
Gang Starr,
Mantronix,
Television Personalities,
OOIOO,
Flamin' Groovies,
Maurizio,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ossler,
The Names,
the Normal,
Silicon Teens,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Divine Comedy,
Adolescents,
Moby Grape,
Technova,
Essential Logic,
Terrestrial Tones,
Agitation Free,
Sparks,
Make Up,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
David Bowie,
Jeff Mills,
Television,
Scientists,
Nils Olav,
Newcleus,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lakeside,
The Buckinghams,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Absolute Body Control,
Bang On A Can,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Electric Prunes,
JFA,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Dawn Penn,
Half Japanese,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Modern Lovers,
Henry Cow,
Roy Ayers,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.