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 Panama and from Accra.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Young Rascals to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ponytail record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scratch Acid,
Anthony Braxton,
L. Decosne,
Warren Ellis,
Kerrie Biddell,
Aloha Tigers,
Dennis Brown,
H. Thieme,
Reagan Youth,
The Buckinghams,
Von Mondo,
Darondo,
The Seeds,
Quantec,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Cramps,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lee Hazlewood,
Isaac Hayes,
Eddi Front,
Rod Modell,
Byron Stingily,
Mary Jane Girls,
Josef K,
Dark Day,
Freddie Wadling,
The Electric Prunes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ronnie Foster,
Fear,
T.S.O.L.,
Skaos,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Mojo Men,
Janne Schatter,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
One Last Wish,
Soft Machine,
Underground Resistance,
a-ha,
Accadde A,
The Associates,
Unrelated Segments,
Swell Maps,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ultra Naté,
The Wake,
The Zeros,
Black Flag,
John Holt,
Echospace,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Angels of Light,
E-Dancer,
Scan 7,
Pere Ubu,
The Happenings,
U.S. Maple,
Los Fastidios,
Fluxion,
Deakin,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.