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 Qatar and from Milan.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 sitar 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 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Ken Boothe. All the underground hits.
All Joey Negro tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unwound,
The Doobie Brothers,
Jeff Lynne,
Von Mondo,
Ludus,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jawbox,
Alison Limerick,
The Gun Club,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Colin Newman,
Throbbing Gristle,
Alphaville,
Toni Rubio,
Drexciya,
Lucky Dragons,
China Crisis,
Delta 5,
Amon Düül II,
FM Einheit,
Wings,
Lalo Schifrin,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rites of Spring,
Dual Sessions,
Chrome,
Roxy Music,
Brick,
Connie Case,
Neu!,
Camberwell Now,
Sister Nancy,
Fad Gadget,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bootsy Collins,
Matthew Bourne,
The Move,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jacob Miller,
Morten Harket,
Rotary Connection,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kayak,
Tres Demented,
ABBA,
Matthew Halsall,
Adolescents,
Rakim,
Yellowson,
Urselle,
8 Eyed Spy,
Jacques Brel,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Zapp,
Eric B and Rakim,
K-Klass,
La Düsseldorf,
Duran Duran,
Stockholm Monsters,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.