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 France and from Columbus.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Houston.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Neil Young to the jazz 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 Wake. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blues Magoos,
Au Pairs,
Silicon Teens,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Count Five,
Drexciya,
The Grass Roots,
Marc Almond,
Drive Like Jehu,
Royal Trux,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Black Flag,
Blake Baxter,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Average White Band,
Sällskapet,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rapeman,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gregory Isaacs,
Massinfluence,
Dennis Brown,
X-102,
Pagans,
Pere Ubu,
The Wake,
Yusef Lateef,
Grandmaster Flash,
Deakin,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Hasil Adkins,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
the Swans,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Q and Not U,
Rhythm & Sound,
Colin Newman,
Dead Boys,
The Stooges,
Howard Jones,
Dave Gahan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lucky Dragons,
Youth Brigade,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Porter Ricks,
Archie Shepp,
The Fugs,
Ten City,
Robert Hood,
Crispy Ambulance,
Wire,
Clear Light,
Crash Course in Science,
Robert Wyatt,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Fire Engines,
The Happenings,
The Standells,
Soft Machine,
New Order, New Order, New Order, New Order.
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.