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 Switzerland 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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 clarinet 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 Marcia Griffiths to the rap 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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Darondo,
Sixth Finger,
Surgeon,
10cc,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Liliput,
Inner City,
Con Funk Shun,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Johnny Clarke,
Joyce Sims,
48th St. Collective,
The Sonics,
Robert Hood,
Hashim,
Dave Gahan,
Alphaville,
Max Romeo,
The Victims,
The Moody Blues,
A Flock of Seagulls,
CMW,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Robert Wyatt,
Von Mondo,
Agitation Free,
Sight & Sound,
The Monochrome Set,
Warsaw,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
MDC,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Flash Fearless,
Cluster,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Infiniti,
Arab on Radar,
The Blues Magoos,
Gastr Del Sol,
Erasure,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Maurizio,
Unrelated Segments,
Zapp,
Chris & Cosey,
Schoolly D,
Zero Boys,
The Fall,
Andrew Hill,
FM Einheit,
The Fuzztones,
The Walker Brothers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
World's Most,
Circle Jerks,
Tres Demented,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Wasted Youth,
Motorama, Motorama, Motorama, Motorama.
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.