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 Mexico and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Godley & Creme to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magma,
Mars,
Mad Mike,
Warren Ellis,
Aaron Thompson,
Erykah Badu,
Moby Grape,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pussy Galore,
Drexciya,
Fatback Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Count Five,
The Cure,
Basic Channel,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Frankie Knuckles,
Juan Atkins,
AZ,
Absolute Body Control,
Hardrive,
Scientists,
Banda Bassotti,
Malaria!,
Thompson Twins,
Agitation Free,
Faust,
Jeru the Damaja,
Simply Red,
DNA,
Altered Images,
Half Japanese,
New Age Steppers,
Boz Scaggs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Scion,
Derrick May,
Funky Four + One,
F. McDonald,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Nico,
David Bowie,
The Blackbyrds,
Depeche Mode,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Yaz,
Man Parrish,
The Busters,
Aural Exciters,
Parry Music,
The Move,
Marine Girls,
Heaven 17,
The Grass Roots,
The Slits,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.