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 Afghanistan and from Salvador.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Moby Grape to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sisters of Mercy 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Almond,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Easy Going,
48th St. Collective,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kas Product,
Section 25,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Model 500,
The New Christs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Essential Logic,
New Age Steppers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Camberwell Now,
Roy Ayers,
Nik Kershaw,
Rufus Thomas,
Soul II Soul,
Swans,
Babytalk,
Lou Reed,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lalann,
Iggy Pop,
Ken Boothe,
Flash Fearless,
The Sonics,
Panda Bear,
Scrapy,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Last Poets,
Nico,
KRS-One,
Hasil Adkins,
Boogie Down Productions,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Tim Buckley,
Sister Nancy,
Rosa Yemen,
ABBA,
Blossom Toes,
Magazine,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kaleidoscope,
Idris Muhammad,
Patti Smith,
Matthew Halsall,
Yusef Lateef,
Hashim,
Reagan Youth,
Fatback Band,
Moby Grape,
Donny Hathaway,
Eve St. Jones,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Con Funk Shun,
Depeche Mode,
Circle Jerks,
Ultimate Spinach,
Delta 5,
Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four.
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.