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 Cyprus and from Houston.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Associates to the rock 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 The Trojans. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wasted Youth,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
JFA,
Todd Rundgren,
Althea and Donna,
Arab on Radar,
Make Up,
Quantec,
Echospace,
Lou Christie,
Ronnie Foster,
Groovy Waters,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Gang Green,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
In Retrospect,
John Cale,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
ABC,
Zero Boys,
Hardrive,
Pet Shop Boys,
Scan 7,
Andrew Hill,
The Detroit Cobras,
Dual Sessions,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pole,
Vladislav Delay,
Ituana,
Eric B and Rakim,
Thee Headcoats,
Moebius,
Metal Thangz,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Procol Harum,
Bad Manners,
the Swans,
Laurel Aitken,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Mojo Men,
Desert Stars,
Liliput,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lungfish,
Gang Starr,
Eurythmics,
Bobby Sherman,
MC5,
Skriet,
the Fania All-Stars,
Main Source,
X-101,
Ludus,
James White and The Blacks,
UT,
E-Dancer,
Cecil Taylor,
Soul II Soul,
Technova,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.