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 Saudi Arabia 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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Calgary.
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 rhodes 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 Minutemen to the techno 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 Kaleidoscope. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fortunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Simply Red record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grauzone,
ABBA,
Todd Rundgren,
China Crisis,
Jeff Lynne,
the Normal,
Eric B and Rakim,
Zero Boys,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Roger Hodgson,
Sun City Girls,
Blossom Toes,
Altered Images,
Lucky Dragons,
The Gap Band,
Rosa Yemen,
Cymande,
Lakeside,
Graham Central Station,
The Fugs,
Public Enemy,
X-101,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Monochrome Set,
the Swans,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sonny Sharrock,
UT,
the Soft Cell,
Oneida,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Derrick May,
Ludus,
Pierre Henry,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scrapy,
Max Romeo,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sandy B,
The Mighty Diamonds,
the Fania All-Stars,
Fugazi,
Technova,
Dave Gahan,
Hashim,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Au Pairs,
Tim Buckley,
The Mummies,
Susan Cadogan,
Swans,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Vainqueur,
CMW,
Brass Construction,
Black Bananas,
Stiv Bators,
Piero Umiliani,
The Knickerbockers,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.