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 Indonesia and from Lille.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro 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 Rufus Thomas to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Desert Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Bar-Kays,
The Trojans,
Public Enemy,
Aswad,
X-102,
Joe Smooth,
Agitation Free,
Cybotron,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Iggy Pop,
Lalo Schifrin,
Letta Mbulu,
Eve St. Jones,
The Divine Comedy,
Kurtis Blow,
Popol Vuh,
Theoretical Girls,
Piero Umiliani,
The Dirtbombs,
the Sonics,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Schoolly D,
Josef K,
PIL,
Harmonia,
Joensuu 1685,
The Buckinghams,
Barbara Tucker,
Stiv Bators,
Carl Craig,
Gang Gang Dance,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Sound,
Magazine,
Ronnie Foster,
Bill Wells,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Invisible,
The Blackbyrds,
Dead Boys,
Reagan Youth,
The Gun Club,
Spoonie Gee,
Metal Thangz,
The Vogues,
The Star Department,
Outsiders,
Thee Headcoats,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Fall,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Swell Maps,
Underground Resistance,
Traffic Nightmare,
Make Up,
Ponytail,
The Slits,
Frankie Knuckles,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Amon Düül,
Bobby Sherman,
Dawn Penn,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.