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 United States and from Lagos.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Gap Band to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez 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 spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marvin Gaye,
Al Stewart,
Harry Pussy,
Beasts of Bourbon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Matthew Halsall,
The Shadows of Knight,
Royal Trux,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Human League,
Lyres,
Mandrill,
Todd Rundgren,
Mantronix,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Chris & Cosey,
Simply Red,
Ituana,
The Mojo Men,
Marine Girls,
Banda Bassotti,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Real Kids,
The Young Rascals,
EPMD,
Barry Ungar,
The Fuzztones,
Yaz,
Ronan,
The Evens,
Dorothy Ashby,
JFA,
Sonny Sharrock,
Soft Cell,
Danielle Patucci,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cameo,
Bad Manners,
Lalo Schifrin,
X-Ray Spex,
Tom Boy,
Young Marble Giants,
Monolake,
The Gap Band,
Skriet,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Cheater Slicks,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Blake Baxter,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Nik Kershaw,
The Vogues,
Joy Division,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Essential Logic,
Minutemen,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.