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 Moldova and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Stereo Dub to the dance 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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a E-Dancer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tom Boy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Chris Corsano,
Gabor Szabo,
Severed Heads,
Popol Vuh,
Icehouse,
Stetsasonic,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Standells,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Gun Club,
Janne Schatter,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Scott Walker,
The Move,
10cc,
Black Pus,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jesper Dahlback,
James White and The Blacks,
The Human League,
the Normal,
Mo-Dettes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pere Ubu,
Urselle,
Sparks,
Cybotron,
Cluster,
Sight & Sound,
Dark Day,
Ultravox,
Zapp,
Rod Modell,
Ossler,
Monolake,
Pantaleimon,
The Slits,
Harpers Bizarre,
Negative Approach,
Oblivians,
Minutemen,
Flamin' Groovies,
Robert Hood,
The Wake,
The Angels of Light,
ABBA,
Bill Near,
Marshall Jefferson,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
UT,
Franke,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bill Wells,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Beau Brummels,
Fat Boys,
A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls.
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.