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 Uruguay and from Hong Kong.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mumbai.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the 808 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 Rapeman to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
Lalann,
Easy Going,
Blancmange,
Altered Images,
Sugar Minott,
Procol Harum,
LL Cool J,
Thompson Twins,
ABBA,
Kayak,
Flipper,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dead Boys,
Grey Daturas,
Fort Wilson Riot,
DJ Style,
Ituana,
Soft Cell,
Mars,
Joensuu 1685,
Rotary Connection,
Colin Newman,
The Velvet Underground,
Derrick Morgan,
Lou Christie,
Peter & Gordon,
Traffic Nightmare,
Agitation Free,
Deadbeat,
The Moleskins,
The Moody Blues,
Country Teasers,
Freddie Wadling,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sällskapet,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Slackers,
Banda Bassotti,
Q and Not U,
This Heat,
Brand Nubian,
The Toasters,
The Index,
David McCallum,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Qualms,
Slave,
Eden Ahbez,
Guru Guru,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lee Hazlewood,
James White and The Blacks,
Ten City,
Half Japanese,
Sonic Youth,
Eric B and Rakim,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Essential Logic,
Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants.
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.