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 Afghanistan and from Manila.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the clarinet 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 The Human League to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes. All the underground hits.
All Gabor Szabo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camouflage 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Technova,
Duran Duran,
The Count Five,
The Toasters,
Goldenarms,
Marvin Gaye,
Zero Boys,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Barclay James Harvest,
Matthew Bourne,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Fortunes,
Unwound,
Adolescents,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Crispian St. Peters,
Arthur Verocai,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cluster,
Pere Ubu,
The Pop Group,
Hashim,
Eric Dolphy,
Derrick May,
Q65,
Motorama,
The Evens,
Donald Byrd,
Talk Talk,
Amazonics,
Swell Maps,
The Slits,
Lakeside,
Janne Schatter,
Lungfish,
K-Klass,
Blancmange,
Aswad,
Average White Band,
Blake Baxter,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sister Nancy,
The Blackbyrds,
Rites of Spring,
Ornette Coleman,
Bobby Sherman,
Letta Mbulu,
Brothers Johnson,
LL Cool J,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lee Hazlewood,
Eve St. Jones,
The New Christs,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Skaos,
Donny Hathaway,
DNA,
A Certain Ratio,
Lalann, Lalann, Lalann, Lalann.
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.