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 Hungary and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Tremeloes. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
H. Thieme,
Chris Corsano,
MDC,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Human League,
Ten City,
Lalann,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Human League,
Dorothy Ashby,
Matthew Halsall,
Funky Four + One,
The Walker Brothers,
John Holt,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marine Girls,
Skaos,
Sam Rivers,
The Stooges,
The Searchers,
Public Image Ltd.,
Malaria!,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Zeros,
The Vogues,
Dawn Penn,
Can,
Black Sheep,
Parry Music,
Public Enemy,
Chris & Cosey,
Andrew Hill,
10cc,
The Neon Judgement,
Minnie Riperton,
Deakin,
Leonard Cohen,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Monks,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ultra Naté,
Carl Craig,
Alice Coltrane,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Gap Band,
Idris Muhammad,
Harmonia,
The Leaves,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Tomorrow,
Curtis Mayfield,
ABBA,
The Doobie Brothers,
Loose Ends,
Popol Vuh,
Lindisfarne,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fear,
Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion.
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.