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 Ethiopia and from Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 guitar 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 Khruangbin to the rap 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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All Pet Shop Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ludus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Standells,
Television,
Nation of Ulysses,
Shuggie Otis,
The Black Dice,
Scott Walker,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Freddie Wadling,
Aloha Tigers,
The Index,
Section 25,
Erasure,
Desert Stars,
Skaos,
The Fall,
Little Man,
Pagans,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
K-Klass,
Tim Buckley,
Maleditus Sound,
Eurythmics,
Michelle Simonal,
Eric Copeland,
Chris & Cosey,
Maurizio,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Skriet,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Boogie Down Productions,
Minor Threat,
The Blackbyrds,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Interpol,
Icehouse,
the Germs,
The Remains,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Tears for Fears,
The Slackers,
Swans,
Shoche,
Flamin' Groovies,
Davy DMX,
Cecil Taylor,
The Motions,
ABBA,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
MC5,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Matthew Halsall,
The Martian,
Idris Muhammad,
Negative Approach,
Jeru the Damaja,
Slave,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Evens,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.