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 Portugal and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 marimba 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 Mantronix to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All Albert Ayler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
Cluster,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sight & Sound,
Interpol,
Silicon Teens,
The Blues Magoos,
Subhumans,
Bauhaus,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Matthew Bourne,
Lou Reed,
The Kinks,
Technova,
Ten City,
Man Parrish,
Magma,
Bobby Byrd,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Golliwogs,
Aloha Tigers,
Aaron Thompson,
Unrelated Segments,
Oblivians,
David Axelrod,
Magazine,
Juan Atkins,
Prince Buster,
Vainqueur,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Judy Mowatt,
Dual Sessions,
Television Personalities,
John Foxx,
Marvin Gaye,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lindisfarne,
E-Dancer,
Ronan,
Minny Pops,
Joyce Sims,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lebanon Hanover,
Theoretical Girls,
a-ha,
Maleditus Sound,
Siglo XX,
The Techniques,
Boz Scaggs,
Can,
Symarip,
The Moody Blues,
Sugar Minott,
Danielle Patucci,
Whodini,
The Beau Brummels,
The American Breed,
Marmalade,
The Angels of Light,
Stiv Bators,
Ossler,
The Busters,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.
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.