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 Bahamas and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 harpsichord 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 Lightning Bolt to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kaleidoscope. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blossom Toes,
Maleditus Sound,
Amazonics,
The Seeds,
Nik Kershaw,
Morten Harket,
Spandau Ballet,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lucky Dragons,
Flash Fearless,
The Searchers,
Kaleidoscope,
Lakeside,
Can,
Matthew Bourne,
Howard Jones,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Johnny Osbourne,
In Retrospect,
Hardrive,
Brothers Johnson,
Soulsonic Force,
Buzzcocks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Heaven 17,
James White and The Blacks,
Groovy Waters,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Divine Comedy,
Wally Richardson,
Franke,
Mo-Dettes,
Joey Negro,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Isaac Hayes,
Althea and Donna,
8 Eyed Spy,
Niagra,
Black Pus,
a-ha,
Electric Prunes,
Camberwell Now,
Mary Jane Girls,
Eric Dolphy,
Todd Rundgren,
The Modern Lovers,
The Last Poets,
Boredoms,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Pop Group,
Fad Gadget,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lalann,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pere Ubu,
Joy Division,
Duran Duran,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
the Swans,
The Gories,
Half Japanese,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.