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 Finland and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Royal Family And The Poor to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Cale,
Zero Boys,
The Invisible,
Roy Ayers,
Hot Snakes,
Morten Harket,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Fugs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Todd Terry,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kaleidoscope,
the Association,
Zapp,
Alphaville,
PIL,
X-101,
The Standells,
Iggy Pop,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Golliwogs,
Youth Brigade,
Fluxion,
kango's stein massive,
Arcadia,
The Barracudas,
Fatback Band,
The Monochrome Set,
Andrew Hill,
The Kinks,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cheater Slicks,
K-Klass,
Todd Rundgren,
Gang Gang Dance,
Audionom,
The Walker Brothers,
The Divine Comedy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Trumans Water,
The Seeds,
Talk Talk,
Minor Threat,
Brick,
Neil Young,
Ossler,
Mandrill,
Amon Düül II,
Max Romeo,
Laurel Aitken,
Yaz,
cv313,
Brass Construction,
Ultra Naté,
Joey Negro,
Magma,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Simply Red,
Donny Hathaway,
Babytalk,
Quantec,
Metal Thangz,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.