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 Netherlands and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 rhodes 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 Technova to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Man Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Green record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Bourne,
Grauzone,
Marcia Griffiths,
The United States of America,
Barry Ungar,
Lyres,
Skriet,
Yazoo,
Charles Mingus,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Busters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
EPMD,
Flipper,
Slave,
Iggy Pop,
Wolf Eyes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Evens,
Minor Threat,
Lower 48,
Eden Ahbez,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sound Behaviour,
The Litter,
Ossler,
Warsaw,
Fugazi,
Technova,
Peter & Gordon,
Albert Ayler,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
CMW,
Sixth Finger,
Rakim,
Can,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Monks,
Fat Boys,
Todd Terry,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Five Americans,
Desert Stars,
Gastr Del Sol,
John Foxx,
Youth Brigade,
The Star Department,
The Velvet Underground,
The Pretty Things,
Magma,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jandek,
Surgeon,
Marc Almond,
Black Bananas,
The Buckinghams,
The Moleskins,
Eli Mardock,
Agent Orange,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.