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 Lyon.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Delon & Dalcan to the punk 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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Public Image Ltd.,
Monolake,
Half Japanese,
Index,
The Dave Clark Five,
Mission of Burma,
Davy DMX,
Royal Trux,
Robert Wyatt,
The Electric Prunes,
Ten City,
Section 25,
Black Flag,
Anakelly,
Banda Bassotti,
The Gun Club,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
X-Ray Spex,
Ronan,
Kas Product,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Blossom Toes,
DJ Sneak,
Arthur Verocai,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
the Human League,
Young Marble Giants,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Five Americans,
Brothers Johnson,
Donald Byrd,
Depeche Mode,
This Heat,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Wally Richardson,
Symarip,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Circle Jerks,
Cecil Taylor,
Das Ding,
June of 44,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Jimmy McGriff,
Glambeats Corp.,
Absolute Body Control,
Adolescents,
Heaven 17,
Sight & Sound,
Kurtis Blow,
Tim Buckley,
B.T. Express,
Qualms,
The United States of America,
Idris Muhammad,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Angry Samoans,
Altered Images,
Funkadelic,
Aaron Thompson,
Ossler,
Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan.
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.