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 Taiwan and from Stockholm.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Dorothy Ashby to the rap 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Simply Red tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Smiths,
Dennis Brown,
Sister Nancy,
The Black Dice,
Shoche,
Tropical Tobacco,
Negative Approach,
Erykah Badu,
Stiv Bators,
Dorothy Ashby,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Flipper,
Essential Logic,
Big Daddy Kane,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Clear Light,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sex Pistols,
The Real Kids,
Lebanon Hanover,
LL Cool J,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Angels of Light,
Half Japanese,
The Skatalites,
Magazine,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kas Product,
The Cowsills,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Moby Grape,
Nik Kershaw,
Sarah Menescal,
Ohio Players,
Bill Near,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Anakelly,
Ten City,
Groovy Waters,
Lightning Bolt,
The Gun Club,
Leonard Cohen,
Frankie Knuckles,
Motorama,
Accadde A,
Michelle Simonal,
Jerry's Kids,
The Motions,
John Lydon,
the Swans,
The Kinks,
Mo-Dettes,
The Moody Blues,
Laurel Aitken,
Youth Brigade,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms.
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.