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 Guinea and from Shanghai.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Eve St. Jones to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Lydon 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 rhodes and a snare 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 linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Techniques,
Bill Wells,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Maurizio,
L. Decosne,
Gichy Dan,
Echospace,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Alice Coltrane,
Alphaville,
Organ,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Kinks,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Warren Ellis,
Dave Gahan,
MDC,
Popol Vuh,
Silicon Teens,
the Fania All-Stars,
Moss Icon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ultra Naté,
Althea and Donna,
Spoonie Gee,
Pulsallama,
The Stooges,
The Standells,
Jimmy McGriff,
Nils Olav,
Negative Approach,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Second Layer,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joey Negro,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Marc Almond,
Johnny Clarke,
June of 44,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Davy DMX,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Seeds,
Black Sheep,
Minutemen,
Sonny Sharrock,
This Heat,
Todd Rundgren,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Deepchord,
Black Bananas,
Barry Ungar,
The Cramps,
X-102,
10cc,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
the Normal,
Eric B and Rakim,
Eli Mardock,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.