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 East Timor and from Glasgow.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Mummies to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Evens. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits 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 '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 Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Tremeloes,
Jeff Mills,
Subhumans,
Lungfish,
Wings,
Anthony Braxton,
Joensuu 1685,
Cybotron,
Sound Behaviour,
Au Pairs,
Bauhaus,
Kurtis Blow,
AZ,
The Smiths,
Pagans,
Blancmange,
Absolute Body Control,
The Red Krayola,
Mission of Burma,
Niagra,
Marvin Gaye,
Stereo Dub,
Peter & Gordon,
kango's stein massive,
Essential Logic,
Lalo Schifrin,
Drive Like Jehu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Doors,
Babytalk,
Supertramp,
Johnny Osbourne,
Derrick May,
Model 500,
the Fania All-Stars,
Minny Pops,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Kinks,
JFA,
Soul Sonic Force,
Khruangbin,
the Bar-Kays,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Alarm Clocks,
Flamin' Groovies,
Marine Girls,
The Gories,
The Motions,
Quando Quango,
Rapeman,
Max Romeo,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Juan Atkins,
The Vogues,
Soul II Soul,
the Swans,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Searchers,
Dark Day,
Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart.
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.