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 Georgia and from London.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Trumans Water 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 The Buckinghams. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lee Hazlewood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Angels of Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
Joe Smooth,
David Axelrod,
a-ha,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Gun Club,
The Cure,
Shoche,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gregory Isaacs,
Crooked Eye,
Deepchord,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Marc Almond,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Whodini,
Hasil Adkins,
Minor Threat,
The Birthday Party,
The Moody Blues,
James White and The Blacks,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Matthew Halsall,
Black Bananas,
Aloha Tigers,
Ultravox,
Rites of Spring,
K-Klass,
Country Teasers,
Ten City,
John Foxx,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bootsy Collins,
Deadbeat,
The Martian,
The Young Rascals,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Angry Samoans,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Section 25,
Groovy Waters,
The Fugs,
Animal Collective,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Seeds,
The Doors,
Underground Resistance,
EPMD,
Yusef Lateef,
Massinfluence,
The Gap Band,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sandy B,
Skarface,
Little Man,
The Dead C,
Skaos,
Ornette Coleman,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.