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 Turkey and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Milan.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the organ 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 FM Einheit 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 Kango’s Stein Massive. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Index 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Metal Thangz,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Techniques,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Quando Quango,
EPMD,
Marc Almond,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Busters,
Nico,
Leonard Cohen,
Warsaw,
Bobby Sherman,
Spandau Ballet,
kango's stein massive,
Animal Collective,
Von Mondo,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Slits,
Black Pus,
Model 500,
Beasts of Bourbon,
June Days,
Popol Vuh,
Robert Hood,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Angry Samoans,
The Human League,
Flipper,
Albert Ayler,
The Blackbyrds,
Camberwell Now,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Lindisfarne,
Boz Scaggs,
New York Dolls,
Lakeside,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ponytail,
Los Fastidios,
The Names,
Alphaville,
Black Sheep,
Shuggie Otis,
Blake Baxter,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Jandek,
Talk Talk,
Nils Olav,
Sonic Youth,
Boredoms,
Wolf Eyes,
Mad Mike,
Anakelly,
Electric Prunes,
Man Eating Sloth,
Colin Newman,
Bill Wells,
Warren Ellis,
Television Personalities,
The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke.
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.