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 United Kingdom and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 synthesizer 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 Essential Logic to the dance 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 Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All The Saints tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
Country Teasers,
Bobby Byrd,
The Fortunes,
Lower 48,
June of 44,
Moby Grape,
Eddi Front,
The New Christs,
Model 500,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Buckinghams,
Niagra,
Make Up,
Isaac Hayes,
Hardrive,
The Sound,
Negative Approach,
Sparks,
Zero Boys,
Slick Rick,
Sonny Sharrock,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lebanon Hanover,
Eurythmics,
The United States of America,
Aloha Tigers,
The Fire Engines,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lou Christie,
Erykah Badu,
MDC,
Index,
Traffic Nightmare,
Severed Heads,
Hoover,
Cheater Slicks,
Stiv Bators,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Flash Fearless,
Boredoms,
Harry Pussy,
Tom Boy,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ossler,
Black Flag,
Supertramp,
The Associates,
The Divine Comedy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kerri Chandler,
Funkadelic,
Alton Ellis,
The Electric Prunes,
Peter & Gordon,
Lakeside,
The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club.
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.