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 Estonia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Nik Kershaw 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
John Lydon,
Yazoo,
Gil Scott Heron,
Moss Icon,
Quadrant,
Ultravox,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Michelle Simonal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Human League,
Youth Brigade,
X-Ray Spex,
Fatback Band,
The Selecter,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Circle Jerks,
The Techniques,
The Residents,
Robert Hood,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fela Kuti,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Boredoms,
The Count Five,
The Sonics,
FM Einheit,
the Germs,
The Kinks,
Gang of Four,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Grauzone,
Nirvana,
Harmonia,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Dave Clark Five,
Eli Mardock,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Patti Smith,
10cc,
Kaleidoscope,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Nico,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
K-Klass,
kango's stein massive,
Sparks,
Oblivians,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Carl Craig,
The Neon Judgement,
Cheater Slicks,
Sixth Finger,
Con Funk Shun,
Lindisfarne,
The Detroit Cobras,
Wire,
The Searchers,
Bluetip,
Alice Coltrane,
Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby.
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.