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 Laos and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Stockholm.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Kenny Larkin to the rock 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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade 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 rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Desert Stars,
the Human League,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Agitation Free,
Camberwell Now,
Blake Baxter,
Stiv Bators,
Johnny Clarke,
Dark Day,
Bluetip,
Kenny Larkin,
Cybotron,
Ten City,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Flamin' Groovies,
Roxy Music,
The Remains,
Oblivians,
Fluxion,
Interpol,
48th St. Collective,
Eli Mardock,
Popol Vuh,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Matthew Bourne,
Drive Like Jehu,
Scan 7,
Big Daddy Kane,
Minny Pops,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Malaria!,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Robert Wyatt,
Gang Starr,
The Sonics,
Letta Mbulu,
Sonny Sharrock,
Peter & Gordon,
Erasure,
The Slackers,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Eric Copeland,
Pussy Galore,
Sight & Sound,
Maleditus Sound,
Rakim,
Vladislav Delay,
Fad Gadget,
Second Layer,
Brass Construction,
Terry Callier,
The Moody Blues,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Cheater Slicks,
Ponytail,
The Saints,
June Days,
Dual Sessions,
Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins.
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.