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 Uganda and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 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 Sad Lovers and Giants 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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Joey Negro tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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?
the Swans,
Essential Logic,
X-Ray Spex,
Flash Fearless,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Deepchord,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sällskapet,
The Barracudas,
Slick Rick,
Public Image Ltd.,
The American Breed,
The Detroit Cobras,
Barry Ungar,
Minnie Riperton,
Circle Jerks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Bootsy Collins,
Agent Orange,
Big Daddy Kane,
Little Man,
Soul Sonic Force,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pantytec,
Sixth Finger,
Black Pus,
Ten City,
Davy DMX,
Lou Reed,
Mantronix,
L. Decosne,
The Moleskins,
John Cale,
Symarip,
D'Angelo,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Traffic Nightmare,
Wasted Youth,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Knickerbockers,
Japan,
Funkadelic,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Busters,
Aaron Thompson,
Barclay James Harvest,
Patti Smith,
Todd Terry,
Zero Boys,
Wire,
Von Mondo,
Neu!,
Parry Music,
Fear,
The Smoke,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pierre Henry,
Main Source,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Blake Baxter,
The Gun Club,
Lucky Dragons,
Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow.
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.