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 Israel and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Aaron Thompson to the disco 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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stockholm Monsters 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slits,
Patti Smith,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Man Eating Sloth,
Au Pairs,
Glambeats Corp.,
Scrapy,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Donald Byrd,
The Electric Prunes,
The Fall,
Circle Jerks,
Agent Orange,
Half Japanese,
The Blues Magoos,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lindisfarne,
Jacob Miller,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Smiths,
Marine Girls,
B.T. Express,
Jeff Lynne,
Zapp,
Stockholm Monsters,
Marmalade,
Yazoo,
Khruangbin,
Altered Images,
Kenny Larkin,
Cybotron,
Iggy Pop,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Victims,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Tres Demented,
Todd Rundgren,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lightning Bolt,
The Knickerbockers,
Rakim,
James White and The Blacks,
Bauhaus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fat Boys,
Pylon,
Eden Ahbez,
Second Layer,
Icehouse,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Yaz,
Cameo,
Blossom Toes,
Shoche,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kurtis Blow,
AZ,
The Golliwogs,
Slave,
Rosa Yemen,
The Mummies,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.