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 East Timor and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Main Source to the dance 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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Bowie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Royal Trux,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
In Retrospect,
Soft Machine,
Easy Going,
Kurtis Blow,
Eurythmics,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Porter Ricks,
A Certain Ratio,
Glenn Branca,
Livin' Joy,
Intrusion,
The Vogues,
Bluetip,
JFA,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Gladiators,
Sarah Menescal,
Eli Mardock,
Ohio Players,
The Seeds,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Crooked Eye,
L. Decosne,
Delta 5,
Pantytec,
Smog,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Hardrive,
June Days,
Youth Brigade,
Gang Starr,
Joe Smooth,
Howard Jones,
Black Pus,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Scratch Acid,
Isaac Hayes,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Quando Quango,
Los Fastidios,
Matthew Bourne,
Stiv Bators,
Josef K,
The Names,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Motions,
Sonic Youth,
Peter and Kerry,
Clear Light,
Tres Demented,
R.M.O.,
Accadde A,
Minnie Riperton,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Fluxion,
Sight & Sound,
The Monochrome Set,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.