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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Neon Judgement to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Smoke. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Eddi Front,
Sun Ra,
Dave Gahan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Can,
Susan Cadogan,
Roxette,
T.S.O.L.,
E-Dancer,
Public Enemy,
Freddie Wadling,
Basic Channel,
Colin Newman,
Johnny Clarke,
The Mojo Men,
L. Decosne,
Davy DMX,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Maleditus Sound,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
In Retrospect,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
the Soft Cell,
Livin' Joy,
Harpers Bizarre,
Blake Baxter,
Moss Icon,
Underground Resistance,
PIL,
Echospace,
Brass Construction,
Steve Hackett,
Popol Vuh,
Mo-Dettes,
Chris & Cosey,
Das Ding,
Unrelated Segments,
Kas Product,
June Days,
Grandmaster Flash,
Moby Grape,
Harry Pussy,
Radio Birdman,
Throbbing Gristle,
Agent Orange,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Television Personalities,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Happenings,
Buzzcocks,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Golliwogs,
Trumans Water,
Youth Brigade,
Ronnie Foster,
Nick Fraelich,
Fear,
Pole,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.