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 Congo and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 Portland and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 marimba 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 Neu! to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ajijia Myrayebe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
Basic Channel,
A Certain Ratio,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Moby Grape,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Urselle,
Panda Bear,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pole,
Faust,
Nils Olav,
Zero Boys,
Hasil Adkins,
Cymande,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Q and Not U,
Erasure,
Main Source,
Bauhaus,
Royal Trux,
Warren Ellis,
Kayak,
The Neon Judgement,
The Human League,
Max Romeo,
Graham Central Station,
Lower 48,
Soul Sonic Force,
Alison Limerick,
Soulsonic Force,
Glenn Branca,
Eric Copeland,
The Angels of Light,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sparks,
Curtis Mayfield,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Invisible,
The Misunderstood,
Country Teasers,
Flash Fearless,
Scan 7,
The Cowsills,
Mo-Dettes,
Jacob Miller,
Bad Manners,
Joyce Sims,
Crooked Eye,
Fatback Band,
Negative Approach,
Kerri Chandler,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dark Day,
Stereo Dub,
Goldenarms,
Ludus,
Grey Daturas,
Jeff Lynne,
Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare.
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.