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 Belgium and from Glasgow.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tokyo.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Yaz to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Masters at Work. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Leaves record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
The Moody Blues,
Technova,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Derrick May,
Ralphi Rosario,
Scott Walker,
Harry Pussy,
The Gun Club,
Barbara Tucker,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Gap Band,
Heaven 17,
Marc Almond,
Anthony Braxton,
Buzzcocks,
Pet Shop Boys,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ten City,
Ultravox,
New Age Steppers,
Todd Terry,
Harmonia,
Susan Cadogan,
Shoche,
Guru Guru,
The Residents,
Jeff Lynne,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Pere Ubu,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Magma,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Five Americans,
Warren Ellis,
Eden Ahbez,
Curtis Mayfield,
Joe Smooth,
MC5,
Lalo Schifrin,
Rekid,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gastr Del Sol,
Camberwell Now,
The Toasters,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Wings,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Schoolly D,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Roy Ayers,
The Skatalites,
Anakelly,
Outsiders,
Mission of Burma,
Theoretical Girls,
The Offenders,
Bill Near,
Altered Images,
June of 44,
Jandek, Jandek, Jandek, Jandek.
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.