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 Canada and from Toronto.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 rhodes 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 AZ to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Names record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moebius,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The J.B.'s,
Wally Richardson,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Rites of Spring,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Iggy Pop,
Zapp,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Tremeloes,
Derrick May,
Rotary Connection,
Piero Umiliani,
Nik Kershaw,
Echospace,
Ultimate Spinach,
Harpers Bizarre,
Section 25,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Essential Logic,
Inner City,
Roger Hodgson,
Arthur Verocai,
T.S.O.L.,
Goldenarms,
DJ Style,
One Last Wish,
Skriet,
Reuben Wilson,
The Move,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ludus,
KRS-One,
MC5,
Carl Craig,
Sister Nancy,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Stiv Bators,
Thompson Twins,
Johnny Clarke,
MDC,
Dark Day,
Slick Rick,
Lower 48,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Kas Product,
Flipper,
Drive Like Jehu,
Radiopuhelimet,
Magazine,
ABC,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Circle Jerks,
Peter and Kerry,
Josef K,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Barrington Levy,
Television,
Lightning Bolt,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.