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 Armenia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 disco 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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crooked Eye 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
New York Dolls,
Suburban Knight,
The Blues Magoos,
Average White Band,
Bang On A Can,
Harpers Bizarre,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dawn Penn,
Amon Düül II,
The Smoke,
Eric Dolphy,
Gabor Szabo,
The Saints,
Visage,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ten City,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Depeche Mode,
The Motions,
Absolute Body Control,
Don Cherry,
Joyce Sims,
Flash Fearless,
Yellowson,
Buzzcocks,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Mr. Review,
Scientists,
Yusef Lateef,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Soul II Soul,
Thee Headcoats,
the Sonics,
Sugar Minott,
The Toasters,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Mummies,
E-Dancer,
Easy Going,
Colin Newman,
Dave Gahan,
Big Daddy Kane,
Mo-Dettes,
Fluxion,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Beau Brummels,
Todd Terry,
Ken Boothe,
Reuben Wilson,
Suicide,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ossler,
Public Enemy,
D'Angelo,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Surgeon,
Derrick May,
Drive Like Jehu,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.