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 Taiwan and from Philadelphia.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Cure to the dance 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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All The Selecter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers 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 guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Moebius,
Fatback Band,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Matthew Halsall,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Boogie Down Productions,
PIL,
Suicide,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Groovy Waters,
Roy Ayers,
Tim Buckley,
Pagans,
The Blackbyrds,
Slick Rick,
Janne Schatter,
Second Layer,
Colin Newman,
Freddie Wadling,
Zapp,
Monks,
Animal Collective,
Jesper Dahlback,
Deakin,
Television,
Lyres,
The Selecter,
Derrick May,
Dark Day,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Moleskins,
Funkadelic,
Crispy Ambulance,
Shoche,
Rufus Thomas,
Ten City,
Mandrill,
Y Pants,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Subhumans,
Qualms,
Flipper,
Average White Band,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Cheater Slicks,
New Age Steppers,
Anthony Braxton,
The Star Department,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Soft Cell,
Blancmange,
Joe Smooth,
Essential Logic,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Invisible,
Moby Grape,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.