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 Manila.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Fall to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terry Callier record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
Bronski Beat,
Radiohead,
the Association,
Gang Green,
Harpers Bizarre,
Organ,
June Days,
Cybotron,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Oblivians,
Girls At Our Best!,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Skatalites,
David Bowie,
Thompson Twins,
Pere Ubu,
Radiopuhelimet,
Jeff Mills,
F. McDonald,
China Crisis,
Kayak,
Chris & Cosey,
Ultravox,
The Monks,
The Human League,
The Smiths,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rites of Spring,
The Doors,
Black Pus,
Fat Boys,
The Vogues,
Patti Smith,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Durutti Column,
Cecil Taylor,
Black Flag,
the Human League,
DJ Style,
Alison Limerick,
Ultimate Spinach,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ohio Players,
Siglo XX,
Pylon,
Anthony Braxton,
Mission of Burma,
The Slackers,
The Stooges,
Eli Mardock,
The Gladiators,
Eric Dolphy,
Lungfish,
The Dirtbombs,
Aswad,
The Mummies,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Scratch Acid,
Frankie Knuckles,
KRS-One,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.