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 Turkey and from Philadelphia.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Lebanon Hanover to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mo-Dettes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
Gregory Isaacs,
Suburban Knight,
Bronski Beat,
The Barracudas,
Fugazi,
DJ Style,
Nirvana,
The Seeds,
Deakin,
The Buckinghams,
Roger Hodgson,
The Martian,
Howard Jones,
Danielle Patucci,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Victims,
Schoolly D,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Masters at Work,
Easy Going,
Flamin' Groovies,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Toasters,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Zapp,
Bobby Byrd,
New Order,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Franke,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Blues Magoos,
Guru Guru,
Von Mondo,
Ohio Players,
Sixth Finger,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Dark Day,
Tomorrow,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The American Breed,
Jacob Miller,
Todd Rundgren,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Outsiders,
Gabor Szabo,
Porter Ricks,
Matthew Halsall,
Depeche Mode,
Henry Cow,
Scientists,
The Trojans,
Country Teasers,
Peter and Kerry,
The Dead C,
Wolf Eyes,
Television,
Moebius,
Janne Schatter,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.