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 Monaco and from Manila.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 The Sonics to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All the Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cybotron,
Black Flag,
The Human League,
Thompson Twins,
Schoolly D,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mo-Dettes,
Symarip,
Colin Newman,
Ten City,
Bang On A Can,
The Dirtbombs,
Faust,
Bauhaus,
Rekid,
Traffic Nightmare,
John Cale,
Sister Nancy,
The Cure,
Vladislav Delay,
Sällskapet,
The Moody Blues,
Supertramp,
Al Stewart,
Chrome,
Lebanon Hanover,
John Lydon,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Althea and Donna,
Henry Cow,
Neu!,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fire Engines,
Cal Tjader,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Max Romeo,
Eurythmics,
The Seeds,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gang Starr,
Intrusion,
The Blackbyrds,
Spandau Ballet,
Juan Atkins,
The Vogues,
Bizarre Inc.,
Yaz,
Man Eating Sloth,
Popol Vuh,
Suicide,
Clear Light,
Magma,
Janne Schatter,
Buzzcocks,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sandy B,
The Buckinghams,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Divine Comedy,
The Grass Roots,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pole,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.