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 Syria and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Wake to the techno 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 Kaleidoscope. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Coltrane 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
The Human League,
Thee Headcoats,
H. Thieme,
Little Man,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Neu!,
Sparks,
Gong,
Kaleidoscope,
Jesper Dahlback,
Clear Light,
Television,
Public Enemy,
Roxy Music,
OOIOO,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Patti Smith,
The Slits,
Bush Tetras,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eric Dolphy,
Moss Icon,
Darondo,
Basic Channel,
Max Romeo,
Outsiders,
Magma,
Gregory Isaacs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Masters at Work,
Bill Wells,
Brothers Johnson,
Wally Richardson,
Tres Demented,
LL Cool J,
Negative Approach,
Massinfluence,
Sun Ra,
David McCallum,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Victims,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Minny Pops,
David Axelrod,
the Sonics,
Moebius,
Swell Maps,
Eddi Front,
8 Eyed Spy,
a-ha,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sexual Harrassment,
Freddie Wadling,
The Invisible,
The Stooges,
The Techniques,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eric Copeland,
Lyres,
Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox.
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.