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 Maldives and from Edmonton.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Flipper to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Pere Ubu. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Peter & Gordon,
Arab on Radar,
The Real Kids,
John Lydon,
Simply Red,
The Monks,
Robert Wyatt,
Wasted Youth,
New Order,
the Association,
Jeff Mills,
Saccharine Trust,
The Fugs,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Pretty Things,
Agent Orange,
Bill Near,
X-Ray Spex,
Mr. Review,
Tres Demented,
Livin' Joy,
ABC,
Bauhaus,
Dennis Brown,
Aloha Tigers,
Sister Nancy,
Flamin' Groovies,
Flash Fearless,
Magazine,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Index,
Popol Vuh,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Fluxion,
Susan Cadogan,
Circle Jerks,
Althea and Donna,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Scrapy,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Don Cherry,
Jerry's Kids,
Ponytail,
Lucky Dragons,
The Beau Brummels,
Sun City Girls,
Make Up,
Tomorrow,
Henry Cow,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rosa Yemen,
The Black Dice,
B.T. Express,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Joe Smooth,
Lalo Schifrin,
Brothers Johnson,
Stiv Bators,
Easy Going,
Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan.
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.