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 Kazakhstan and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Alphaville to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 PIL. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maleditus Sound,
Kaleidoscope,
Japan,
Robert Hood,
The Walker Brothers,
Groovy Waters,
Lightning Bolt,
Rod Modell,
F. McDonald,
Accadde A,
Nico,
Throbbing Gristle,
Roxette,
Shoche,
The Fugs,
The Detroit Cobras,
Chris & Cosey,
Minutemen,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bauhaus,
Alice Coltrane,
June Days,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Little Man,
Reagan Youth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Susan Cadogan,
Brick,
Freddie Wadling,
Erasure,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gang Green,
Nick Fraelich,
Supertramp,
Zapp,
The Standells,
Hasil Adkins,
The Moody Blues,
The Gladiators,
China Crisis,
Sonic Youth,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Slave,
Soul Sonic Force,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Neil Young,
Lou Reed,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Juan Atkins,
Can,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ossler,
Anakelly,
Suburban Knight,
Marvin Gaye,
Parry Music,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ludus,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.