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 Luxembourg and from Lyon.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Con Funk Shun to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gladiators record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
Sun Ra,
The Smiths,
Bronski Beat,
Davy DMX,
Von Mondo,
Jerry's Kids,
Tres Demented,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Inner City,
Accadde A,
Gabor Szabo,
Morten Harket,
Theoretical Girls,
The Count Five,
Negative Approach,
Stockholm Monsters,
Toni Rubio,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Black Flag,
Whodini,
Eli Mardock,
The Happenings,
Robert Hood,
Television Personalities,
Crispian St. Peters,
Black Bananas,
The Cramps,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Public Image Ltd.,
Mr. Review,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Human League,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sam Rivers,
Jesper Dahlback,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Minny Pops,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Q and Not U,
One Last Wish,
Malaria!,
The Fuzztones,
John Foxx,
Spandau Ballet,
Simply Red,
Roxette,
Laurel Aitken,
The Gun Club,
Avey Tare,
Vladislav Delay,
Surgeon,
The Dead C,
Rites of Spring,
Joey Negro,
X-Ray Spex,
The Walker Brothers,
The Raincoats,
Connie Case,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Moody Blues,
The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers.
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.