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 Egypt and from Columbus.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cameo,
the Slits,
Visage,
Fad Gadget,
Jesper Dahlback,
Barrington Levy,
Howard Jones,
Arthur Verocai,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Thee Headcoats,
World's Most,
Half Japanese,
Qualms,
Ludus,
Camberwell Now,
Talk Talk,
Cybotron,
Public Image Ltd.,
Swans,
Anakelly,
Kaleidoscope,
Spandau Ballet,
Lindisfarne,
Flash Fearless,
The Sound,
The Mojo Men,
New Age Steppers,
Fugazi,
Steve Hackett,
The Gap Band,
In Retrospect,
Yusef Lateef,
Sound Behaviour,
8 Eyed Spy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
John Foxx,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Jeff Lynne,
Skaos,
Aaron Thompson,
UT,
Alice Coltrane,
DJ Sneak,
Soul Sonic Force,
The United States of America,
The Busters,
Radiopuhelimet,
Mission of Burma,
Anthony Braxton,
Barbara Tucker,
Warren Ellis,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Yazoo,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Beau Brummels,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Freddie Wadling,
Prince Buster,
Terry Callier,
Mo-Dettes,
cv313,
Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia.
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.