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 Cape Verde and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Loose Ends to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Peter and Kerry,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Janne Schatter,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Harmonia,
Bobby Byrd,
Joe Finger,
Easy Going,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Evens,
Reuben Wilson,
X-Ray Spex,
The American Breed,
The Black Dice,
This Heat,
The Detroit Cobras,
Eric Copeland,
U.S. Maple,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sound Behaviour,
The Gun Club,
Bootsy Collins,
The Happenings,
Sight & Sound,
Amazonics,
Minny Pops,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Dirtbombs,
Quantec,
The Divine Comedy,
UT,
Glenn Branca,
Nas,
Average White Band,
Marmalade,
Sixth Finger,
Patti Smith,
Johnny Osbourne,
Suburban Knight,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Germs,
Accadde A,
Monks,
Carl Craig,
Chris Corsano,
The J.B.'s,
Zero Boys,
Los Fastidios,
Barbara Tucker,
Brothers Johnson,
Infiniti,
Radiopuhelimet,
K-Klass,
Joey Negro,
Echospace,
Jandek,
DJ Sneak,
Mantronix,
Curtis Mayfield,
Stockholm Monsters,
Quadrant,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.