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 Australia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Edmonton.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Trumans Water 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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Jacques Brel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
Rod Modell,
Adolescents,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Dorothy Ashby,
Black Sheep,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Dirtbombs,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Tears for Fears,
New York Dolls,
Deadbeat,
The Velvet Underground,
Aloha Tigers,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Laurel Aitken,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Shuggie Otis,
Main Source,
Avey Tare,
Lightning Bolt,
Danielle Patucci,
Chris Corsano,
Lalo Schifrin,
Mark Hollis,
The Smoke,
Stereo Dub,
The Five Americans,
The Happenings,
Deakin,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
K-Klass,
Glenn Branca,
Pole,
Motorama,
The Real Kids,
Connie Case,
Monolake,
Davy DMX,
The Electric Prunes,
Lou Christie,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lakeside,
MDC,
Robert Wyatt,
Bizarre Inc.,
MC5,
Schoolly D,
Mo-Dettes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
cv313,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
China Crisis,
The Mojo Men,
a-ha,
Thompson Twins,
The Pretty Things,
Roxette,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.