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 Albania and from Jakarta.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 John Holt to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
The Misunderstood,
Half Japanese,
Roxette,
Lucky Dragons,
Eurythmics,
X-Ray Spex,
Janne Schatter,
Thee Headcoats,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Little Man,
Marcia Griffiths,
Marvin Gaye,
Sound Behaviour,
Simply Red,
Derrick Morgan,
Frankie Knuckles,
Cal Tjader,
Bluetip,
Alison Limerick,
The Dead C,
Vainqueur,
Infiniti,
Agent Orange,
Colin Newman,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Marine Girls,
John Cale,
Ponytail,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Pop Group,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Human League,
Harry Pussy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Amazonics,
Black Flag,
Kaleidoscope,
Shuggie Otis,
Albert Ayler,
The American Breed,
Wolf Eyes,
The Evens,
Circle Jerks,
The Toasters,
MDC,
Funkadelic,
Blake Baxter,
Sister Nancy,
Charles Mingus,
Soulsonic Force,
Isaac Hayes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
the Normal,
Girls At Our Best!,
Neu!,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Joe Finger,
The Wake,
The Gap Band,
The Cure,
10cc,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.