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 Qatar and from Glasgow.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Malaria! to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Traffic Nightmare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eurythmics,
Erasure,
The Moleskins,
Magma,
The Star Department,
The Sonics,
David McCallum,
Traffic Nightmare,
Dave Gahan,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Hot Snakes,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Moss Icon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Interpol,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Dead C,
Masters at Work,
Bill Near,
Desert Stars,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Victims,
The Standells,
Scion,
John Coltrane,
The Tremeloes,
Lyres,
The Mummies,
Joe Smooth,
The Knickerbockers,
X-102,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Von Mondo,
Organ,
The Fire Engines,
China Crisis,
Rakim,
Tears for Fears,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Q65,
Ronnie Foster,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Yazoo,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Zero Boys,
Dead Boys,
La Düsseldorf,
Youth Brigade,
Gerry Rafferty,
Joy Division,
Section 25,
Rufus Thomas,
Depeche Mode,
The J.B.'s,
Juan Atkins,
The Grass Roots,
Crooked Eye,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.