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 Palau and from Manila.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Sex Pistols to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Boredoms. All the underground hits.
All Pet Shop Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rakim,
Al Stewart,
Model 500,
The Buckinghams,
The Sound,
Zero Boys,
Ronnie Foster,
The Mummies,
Nation of Ulysses,
Soulsonic Force,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Slick Rick,
Echospace,
Chris Corsano,
Erasure,
Lebanon Hanover,
Simply Red,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Massinfluence,
Television Personalities,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ludus,
Fluxion,
Soft Machine,
The Red Krayola,
New Age Steppers,
Man Eating Sloth,
Marc Almond,
Todd Rundgren,
Joe Smooth,
Rod Modell,
Lalo Schifrin,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Velvet Underground,
Peter & Gordon,
Faraquet,
The Selecter,
Bauhaus,
The Motions,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Martian,
In Retrospect,
Rosa Yemen,
Chrome,
Loose Ends,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Letta Mbulu,
Easy Going,
Brick,
Crash Course in Science,
John Lydon,
A Certain Ratio,
T. Rex,
Cybotron,
The Young Rascals,
The Alarm Clocks,
Young Marble Giants,
Jimmy McGriff,
Grandmaster Flash,
Hashim,
Idris Muhammad,
Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane.
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.