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 Belgium and from Paris.
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 Cairo and Delhi.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the snare 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 Neil Young to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Depeche Mode,
Schoolly D,
The Young Rascals,
Carl Craig,
PIL,
The Misunderstood,
LL Cool J,
Surgeon,
The Golliwogs,
The Angels of Light,
The Moleskins,
Saccharine Trust,
DJ Style,
8 Eyed Spy,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Q65,
Roy Ayers,
Barry Ungar,
Anthony Braxton,
Shoche,
Accadde A,
Yaz,
Bad Manners,
Bush Tetras,
T.S.O.L.,
ABC,
Nas,
Yazoo,
Bauhaus,
Soft Cell,
Magazine,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Althea and Donna,
Jimmy McGriff,
Simply Red,
Sister Nancy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Motions,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fluxion,
Agent Orange,
Scan 7,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Flamin' Groovies,
Heaven 17,
Rites of Spring,
The Selecter,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Swans,
Rapeman,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Trumans Water,
MDC,
Boz Scaggs,
Crime,
Bluetip,
The Index,
The Fire Engines,
Ultravox,
Tears for Fears,
Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood.
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.