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 India and from Sao Paulo.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Youth Brigade to the dance 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All New York Dolls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terrestrial Tones 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Siglo XX,
Joy Division,
Nico,
Aural Exciters,
Bobby Sherman,
The Trojans,
The Durutti Column,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Aswad,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Jandek,
Kayak,
Motorama,
Throbbing Gristle,
Nik Kershaw,
Pantytec,
The United States of America,
Quando Quango,
Crash Course in Science,
Skarface,
Massinfluence,
Girls At Our Best!,
Connie Case,
Alton Ellis,
Mary Jane Girls,
CMW,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Al Stewart,
The Golliwogs,
Radiohead,
These Immortal Souls,
Arab on Radar,
Joe Finger,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
June Days,
Scion,
Scientists,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Dawn Penn,
Fela Kuti,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Moody Blues,
The Dave Clark Five,
Fluxion,
The Skatalites,
Sound Behaviour,
Smog,
The Remains,
Bob Dylan,
The Martian,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Q and Not U,
Eden Ahbez,
One Last Wish,
A Certain Ratio,
Chrome,
Negative Approach,
Harpers Bizarre,
Judy Mowatt,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
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.