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 Comoros and from Glasgow.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Interpol to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Standells,
Echospace,
The Index,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
E-Dancer,
Max Romeo,
Depeche Mode,
The Happenings,
Sandy B,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Wings,
Livin' Joy,
Blancmange,
Rod Modell,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Matthew Halsall,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Dorothy Ashby,
Black Flag,
Jeff Lynne,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Techniques,
Jesper Dahlback,
Essential Logic,
The Fortunes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Joe Finger,
Stereo Dub,
Marvin Gaye,
Erykah Badu,
Funkadelic,
Rakim,
Dave Gahan,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Parry Music,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Henry Cow,
The Zeros,
Chris & Cosey,
Au Pairs,
Crispian St. Peters,
Royal Trux,
Lalann,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Pop Group,
Fela Kuti,
Young Marble Giants,
Vladislav Delay,
Prince Buster,
Dark Day,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bluetip,
Josef K,
The Red Krayola,
The Gap Band,
Albert Ayler,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Fuzztones,
Scrapy,
Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow.
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.