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 Bulgaria and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the guitar 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 This Heat to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nirvana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rapeman,
Alphaville,
Gang Gang Dance,
Supertramp,
the Slits,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Basic Channel,
Surgeon,
Lalo Schifrin,
Nik Kershaw,
Ultra Naté,
The Count Five,
Scientists,
Groovy Waters,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Soft Machine,
Letta Mbulu,
Ken Boothe,
The Selecter,
Sam Rivers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
These Immortal Souls,
The Neon Judgement,
Spoonie Gee,
Quando Quango,
Eve St. Jones,
The Cowsills,
Guru Guru,
Motorama,
Erykah Badu,
Tim Buckley,
The Star Department,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Remains,
Godley & Creme,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gichy Dan,
The Music Machine,
The Human League,
Ice-T,
the Bar-Kays,
The Trojans,
Ultimate Spinach,
Cameo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
John Foxx,
Blake Baxter,
Unrelated Segments,
Howard Jones,
Marcia Griffiths,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ossler,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Associates,
Roger Hodgson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Television Personalities,
Suburban Knight,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Freddie Wadling,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.