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 St Lucia and from Winnipeg.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kenny Larkin to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spandau Ballet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jimmy McGriff record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Modern Lovers,
The Seeds,
L. Decosne,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Angels of Light,
Todd Terry,
ABC,
Hashim,
The Young Rascals,
Man Parrish,
Excepter,
Lou Reed,
Mandrill,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Josef K,
Camouflage,
Theoretical Girls,
The Smiths,
The Associates,
Little Man,
Subhumans,
Marcia Griffiths,
Robert Wyatt,
Freddie Wadling,
La Düsseldorf,
Cymande,
The Smoke,
New Order,
The Stooges,
David McCallum,
Delta 5,
The Pop Group,
the Germs,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Nico,
DJ Sneak,
Roxy Music,
The Music Machine,
Newcleus,
Marc Almond,
Scientists,
EPMD,
Silicon Teens,
The Misunderstood,
Lalann,
Rhythm & Sound,
Jacques Brel,
Aural Exciters,
Sparks,
Dorothy Ashby,
Crispy Ambulance,
Black Moon,
Bill Wells,
Chris & Cosey,
the Slits,
These Immortal Souls,
OOIOO,
Curtis Mayfield,
Skriet,
The Residents,
Bobby Byrd,
Janne Schatter,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.