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 Venezuela and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the snare 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 The Wake to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Dawn Penn. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every China Crisis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Litter,
The Angels of Light,
Lucky Dragons,
Los Fastidios,
Iggy Pop,
Eric Copeland,
10cc,
the Soft Cell,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Black Sheep,
Drive Like Jehu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Barracudas,
David Bowie,
Bobby Womack,
Surgeon,
Jandek,
The Happenings,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Young Rascals,
Mo-Dettes,
John Coltrane,
Andrew Hill,
Barrington Levy,
Judy Mowatt,
Bobby Sherman,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Offenders,
the Human League,
Crash Course in Science,
Robert Görl,
Spandau Ballet,
Warsaw,
Max Romeo,
Eric Dolphy,
AZ,
Minor Threat,
EPMD,
Chrome,
The Real Kids,
Black Flag,
Black Moon,
Guru Guru,
Nils Olav,
Pere Ubu,
Gong,
Brass Construction,
La Düsseldorf,
Lee Hazlewood,
New Age Steppers,
Bobby Byrd,
Blake Baxter,
Albert Ayler,
FM Einheit,
It's A Beautiful Day,
the Sonics,
Franke,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.