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 Japan and from Bremen.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 cv313 to the rock 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All Liaisons Dangereuses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott Heron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minutemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Mantronix,
a-ha,
Dual Sessions,
Franke,
Ornette Coleman,
Fugazi,
Spoonie Gee,
The United States of America,
Ohio Players,
Fluxion,
Zero Boys,
The Pop Group,
The Fuzztones,
Fifty Foot Hose,
John Holt,
Anthony Braxton,
Unrelated Segments,
The Smiths,
Reuben Wilson,
Agent Orange,
Nico,
Henry Cow,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Tropical Tobacco,
Erasure,
Rakim,
The Leaves,
Barclay James Harvest,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Minnie Riperton,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sugar Minott,
Lightning Bolt,
Electric Prunes,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Index,
Gang of Four,
Maleditus Sound,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Slick Rick,
Eric Copeland,
Alice Coltrane,
Fatback Band,
Ken Boothe,
Kevin Saunderson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Vainqueur,
The Buckinghams,
Yaz,
Dorothy Ashby,
Boz Scaggs,
Darondo,
The Kinks,
Nirvana,
Joy Division,
Derrick May,
Qualms,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.