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 Iraq and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Fugs to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Monks. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flipper 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Angels of Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
The Mojo Men,
Henry Cow,
Judy Mowatt,
Isaac Hayes,
Monks,
Pere Ubu,
Banda Bassotti,
Steve Hackett,
Angry Samoans,
The Golliwogs,
Zapp,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Colin Newman,
Magma,
Public Enemy,
Severed Heads,
Soft Machine,
Sound Behaviour,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Crash Course in Science,
Pierre Henry,
Joensuu 1685,
The Modern Lovers,
Skriet,
Youth Brigade,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Black Pus,
Young Marble Giants,
Peter and Kerry,
Joy Division,
Roy Ayers,
Maurizio,
The Evens,
The Selecter,
Q65,
Deakin,
Hashim,
The Smiths,
DJ Sneak,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Mars,
The Skatalites,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bill Near,
Gregory Isaacs,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Depeche Mode,
Scientists,
The Young Rascals,
Donny Hathaway,
Warren Ellis,
Magazine,
The Gories,
Moss Icon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lou Christie,
Black Moon,
Kayak,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Human League,
Andrew Hill,
Slave,
Lyres, Lyres, Lyres, Lyres.
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.