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 United Kingdom and from Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 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 Donny Hathaway to the dance 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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skarface record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Los Fastidios,
The Saints,
Gabor Szabo,
Agent Orange,
The Standells,
Kaleidoscope,
Essential Logic,
Aloha Tigers,
Animal Collective,
Alphaville,
Scion,
Frankie Knuckles,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Technova,
EPMD,
The Angels of Light,
Interpol,
Joy Division,
Altered Images,
The Pop Group,
Hoover,
Brothers Johnson,
Sonic Youth,
Radiopuhelimet,
A Certain Ratio,
Flash Fearless,
Cybotron,
Anakelly,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Barrington Levy,
Bobby Womack,
Erykah Badu,
Isaac Hayes,
the Swans,
The Barracudas,
Lou Reed,
Chris Corsano,
Sonny Sharrock,
Adolescents,
The Gories,
a-ha,
Moby Grape,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Thee Headcoats,
Mad Mike,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Monks,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Mars,
Lucky Dragons,
Henry Cow,
Eli Mardock,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pharoah Sanders,
ABBA,
Kerrie Biddell,
Maleditus Sound,
Flipper,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.