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 Albania and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Simply Red to the punk 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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nico 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Howard Jones,
Juan Atkins,
Roy Ayers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Flipper,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eric Dolphy,
Freddie Wadling,
Echospace,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Livin' Joy,
The Gories,
Boredoms,
The Associates,
Dave Gahan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
AZ,
The Fall,
Wings,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Matthew Halsall,
Fela Kuti,
Hardrive,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ultimate Spinach,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Tomorrow,
Maurizio,
The Happenings,
John Holt,
Hot Snakes,
Stereo Dub,
Gang Green,
Electric Prunes,
Inner City,
Warsaw,
Oneida,
Wasted Youth,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Zeros,
Marshall Jefferson,
Girls At Our Best!,
Cluster,
Black Bananas,
Moss Icon,
Letta Mbulu,
Barrington Levy,
Can,
Ten City,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Standells,
The Stooges,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rod Modell,
Au Pairs,
Second Layer,
Outsiders,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Alarm Clocks,
Yaz,
Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage.
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.