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 Tajikistan and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Joe Finger to the electroclash 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 Los Fastidios. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Panda Bear,
Throbbing Gristle,
Nik Kershaw,
The Smiths,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Tim Buckley,
Eden Ahbez,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gang Starr,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Electric Prunes,
Newcleus,
Negative Approach,
K-Klass,
Shoche,
Banda Bassotti,
The Young Rascals,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Icehouse,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Goldenarms,
Bill Near,
Barbara Tucker,
Terrestrial Tones,
Echospace,
Ronnie Foster,
Depeche Mode,
Theoretical Girls,
Television,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Harpers Bizarre,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Dead C,
Sällskapet,
The Stooges,
Joe Finger,
Robert Wyatt,
Nick Fraelich,
The Remains,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Flipper,
Skaos,
Robert Görl,
Henry Cow,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Blues Magoos,
Blake Baxter,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Zapp,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
John Coltrane,
Jacques Brel,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Popol Vuh,
Average White Band,
Idris Muhammad,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.