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 Slovakia and from Beijing.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Icehouse to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Laurel Aitken tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thee Headcoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Main Source,
David McCallum,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Das Ding,
Index,
Stiv Bators,
The Five Americans,
Arcadia,
Supertramp,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Slits,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
X-101,
The Moleskins,
A Certain Ratio,
Lightning Bolt,
Slick Rick,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Japan,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Negative Approach,
Camouflage,
cv313,
Bizarre Inc.,
Carl Craig,
Inner City,
Con Funk Shun,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Soul II Soul,
Scott Walker,
Gang Gang Dance,
JFA,
Half Japanese,
Bill Wells,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Moby Grape,
Average White Band,
Aural Exciters,
The Skatalites,
48th St. Collective,
Yellowson,
Fear,
Whodini,
Dark Day,
Tom Boy,
Ituana,
Bang On A Can,
Dead Boys,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Arab on Radar,
DJ Sneak,
Oneida,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Doobie Brothers,
Radio Birdman,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
PIL,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.