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 Iran and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tehran.
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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Litter to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Intrusion,
Blake Baxter,
F. McDonald,
Lalo Schifrin,
Severed Heads,
cv313,
Trumans Water,
Soft Cell,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Association,
Public Image Ltd.,
Nik Kershaw,
Eve St. Jones,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ronan,
Don Cherry,
Eric B and Rakim,
Negative Approach,
Quantec,
Cal Tjader,
Josef K,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Real Kids,
Erykah Badu,
Boz Scaggs,
The Vogues,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Goldenarms,
Shoche,
June of 44,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Janne Schatter,
The Remains,
Mary Jane Girls,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Stockholm Monsters,
Eurythmics,
Grandmaster Flash,
Althea and Donna,
Delta 5,
Joe Smooth,
Faraquet,
Eden Ahbez,
Fad Gadget,
Organ,
The Raincoats,
Agent Orange,
Joensuu 1685,
The Sound,
Arab on Radar,
CMW,
Chrome,
Technova,
Lower 48,
Barbara Tucker,
China Crisis,
Laurel Aitken,
The Tremeloes,
Deakin, Deakin, Deakin, Deakin.
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.