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 France and from Beijing.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 linndrum 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 Supertramp to the grunge 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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
Shoche,
The Techniques,
Icehouse,
The Alarm Clocks,
Roxy Music,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Cure,
Gang Green,
Soft Cell,
Ituana,
Maurizio,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Nick Fraelich,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Vladislav Delay,
John Lydon,
The Five Americans,
Flamin' Groovies,
Mantronix,
Easy Going,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
X-102,
Groovy Waters,
Quantec,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eurythmics,
Radiohead,
Dawn Penn,
Pagans,
The Leaves,
Au Pairs,
Talk Talk,
Desert Stars,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Inner City,
Stiv Bators,
The Modern Lovers,
The Barracudas,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Monks,
Marine Girls,
Davy DMX,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
New Age Steppers,
Urselle,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Depeche Mode,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Mark Hollis,
Can,
Young Marble Giants,
Rod Modell,
The Evens,
The Searchers,
Ossler,
Dave Gahan,
Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier.
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.