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 Israel and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Youth Brigade to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Duran Duran tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Offenders,
UT,
Gong,
Judy Mowatt,
Trumans Water,
Bill Near,
Unrelated Segments,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Nas,
China Crisis,
Kaleidoscope,
La Düsseldorf,
Jerry's Kids,
Todd Terry,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Boogie Down Productions,
Vladislav Delay,
Radiohead,
Lou Christie,
New Age Steppers,
D'Angelo,
Adolescents,
Fugazi,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Derrick Morgan,
Bronski Beat,
The Fortunes,
MDC,
Visage,
The Move,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Neil Young,
Goldenarms,
48th St. Collective,
Television,
Wings,
Big Daddy Kane,
Marmalade,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ponytail,
Eric Dolphy,
Erykah Badu,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sight & Sound,
Toni Rubio,
Bobby Sherman,
Curtis Mayfield,
the Bar-Kays,
T. Rex,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Donny Hathaway,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Motorama,
Crispy Ambulance,
Roxette,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Grass Roots,
John Cale,
Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox.
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.