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 Mumbai.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Delon & Dalcan to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Finger 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Public Image Ltd.,
Vladislav Delay,
Eli Mardock,
Grandmaster Flash,
Soul II Soul,
Sexual Harrassment,
Soft Machine,
Lou Reed,
Silicon Teens,
Crispian St. Peters,
Godley & Creme,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Marmalade,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Theoretical Girls,
The Offenders,
Nick Fraelich,
Qualms,
Ornette Coleman,
cv313,
The Tremeloes,
Brass Construction,
Simply Red,
Alison Limerick,
Can,
World's Most,
Trumans Water,
Patti Smith,
Stockholm Monsters,
The J.B.'s,
The Walker Brothers,
Drexciya,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Joyce Sims,
Crooked Eye,
Television Personalities,
Parry Music,
Basic Channel,
The Motions,
Jeff Lynne,
The Blackbyrds,
Graham Central Station,
Japan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Matthew Halsall,
Slave,
The Index,
Iggy Pop,
The Gun Club,
David McCallum,
Television,
Skarface,
Surgeon,
Avey Tare,
Amon Düül II,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
DJ Style,
Brick,
Yellowson,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.