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 Cuba and from Manila.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the crunk 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 Arab on Radar. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nik Kershaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
James White and The Blacks,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Pretty Things,
Mission of Burma,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Sonics,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Shoche,
The Standells,
Avey Tare,
EPMD,
Barry Ungar,
The Barracudas,
Bauhaus,
the Normal,
Deepchord,
Silicon Teens,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
B.T. Express,
Electric Prunes,
Tubeway Army,
Barrington Levy,
Moss Icon,
Bang On A Can,
Excepter,
Scientists,
Second Layer,
Stetsasonic,
Connie Case,
Eurythmics,
Joe Smooth,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Hardrive,
Gichy Dan,
Subhumans,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Alton Ellis,
Aswad,
Pylon,
Mandrill,
The Electric Prunes,
The Zeros,
The Walker Brothers,
Nik Kershaw,
The Wake,
Blossom Toes,
DJ Sneak,
Kas Product,
Sonic Youth,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Dual Sessions,
Roxy Music,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gang of Four,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.