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 Armenia and from Mexico City.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Au Pairs to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Durutti Column 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a E-Dancer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
Main Source,
Sun Ra,
Wire,
Tears for Fears,
DNA,
Deepchord,
The Invisible,
Nik Kershaw,
Fatback Band,
a-ha,
The Vogues,
Niagra,
Bob Dylan,
Gichy Dan,
The Pretty Things,
The Slits,
Ituana,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Massinfluence,
Cluster,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pharoah Sanders,
Aaron Thompson,
The Doors,
Wasted Youth,
Black Flag,
Ultimate Spinach,
John Coltrane,
The New Christs,
Dave Gahan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Tim Buckley,
Michelle Simonal,
JFA,
Scientists,
Tom Boy,
AZ,
Pole,
Supertramp,
Sugar Minott,
The Monks,
The Tremeloes,
The Seeds,
Charles Mingus,
The Music Machine,
These Immortal Souls,
New Order,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Skriet,
Dark Day,
The Shadows of Knight,
Oblivians,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Durutti Column,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Yazoo,
Loose Ends,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lou Christie,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fluxion,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.