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 Honduras and from Bologna.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 sitar 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 Aaron Thompson to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Sister Nancy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sonics,
Brick,
Yusef Lateef,
K-Klass,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Blancmange,
Vladislav Delay,
Hardrive,
Kool Moe Dee,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
DJ Sneak,
Aaron Thompson,
Piero Umiliani,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Joy Division,
Johnny Clarke,
Davy DMX,
Mark Hollis,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
One Last Wish,
Porter Ricks,
Minnie Riperton,
The Detroit Cobras,
Siglo XX,
Lyres,
Scratch Acid,
Thompson Twins,
Oneida,
The Sound,
Gichy Dan,
Roger Hodgson,
Fat Boys,
Aswad,
Peter and Kerry,
Lakeside,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sonic Youth,
Alice Coltrane,
Hoover,
Ronnie Foster,
Charles Mingus,
Yaz,
ABC,
Duran Duran,
the Normal,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Derrick Morgan,
Terrestrial Tones,
Erasure,
Chris & Cosey,
48th St. Collective,
Babytalk,
U.S. Maple,
The Trojans,
Pet Shop Boys,
Chrome,
Dave Gahan,
Saccharine Trust,
The Vogues,
Freddie Wadling,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.