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 Somalia and from Paris.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the dance 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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
JFA,
Hardrive,
the Association,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Drexciya,
Alphaville,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Searchers,
Mars,
Siglo XX,
D'Angelo,
Gerry Rafferty,
Swell Maps,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Tom Boy,
Pantytec,
Shuggie Otis,
a-ha,
Little Man,
Bronski Beat,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fad Gadget,
Procol Harum,
Barry Ungar,
Juan Atkins,
Malaria!,
Chris Corsano,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
MDC,
Lightning Bolt,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Thompson Twins,
Popol Vuh,
John Foxx,
The Cramps,
The Flesh Eaters,
Groovy Waters,
The Motions,
The Modern Lovers,
Todd Terry,
Japan,
Moss Icon,
CMW,
Monolake,
The Fuzztones,
Amazonics,
Byron Stingily,
Soul II Soul,
Eric B and Rakim,
Kerri Chandler,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rakim,
Flipper,
Terrestrial Tones,
Lyres,
Sex Pistols,
Stereo Dub,
The Walker Brothers,
Ronnie Foster,
DNA,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.