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 India and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Au Pairs to the disco 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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
Girls At Our Best!,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ronan,
The Velvet Underground,
Organ,
John Holt,
Amazonics,
Parry Music,
Bauhaus,
Aaron Thompson,
Charles Mingus,
Los Fastidios,
Lungfish,
Ultravox,
Rosa Yemen,
June Days,
Qualms,
Au Pairs,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
R.M.O.,
Jawbox,
Fat Boys,
Y Pants,
Grey Daturas,
Icehouse,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Donny Hathaway,
This Heat,
Arcadia,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Monks,
The Zeros,
Saccharine Trust,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Arab on Radar,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Index,
The Birthday Party,
Marc Almond,
Steve Hackett,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Dave Gahan,
Byron Stingily,
Iggy Pop,
Model 500,
Ralphi Rosario,
Camberwell Now,
Amon Düül II,
Roxette,
Fugazi,
Colin Newman,
Ultra Naté,
8 Eyed Spy,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Derrick Morgan,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Neon Judgement,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Monks,
The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers.
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.