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 Czech Republic and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Dave Clark Five to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Tom Boy,
Maleditus Sound,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Faraquet,
Jimmy McGriff,
Harry Pussy,
Judy Mowatt,
Motorama,
Gichy Dan,
Carl Craig,
Sam Rivers,
The Gap Band,
Sarah Menescal,
Curtis Mayfield,
Blake Baxter,
Dennis Brown,
Roger Hodgson,
Theoretical Girls,
Archie Shepp,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Scratch Acid,
June of 44,
Tropical Tobacco,
Black Sheep,
Ken Boothe,
Mary Jane Girls,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Victims,
Rekid,
Ronnie Foster,
Section 25,
L. Decosne,
Organ,
Q65,
Nik Kershaw,
Kool Moe Dee,
Amazonics,
The Music Machine,
Angry Samoans,
Joensuu 1685,
Deakin,
Camouflage,
The New Christs,
the Human League,
Ituana,
Crooked Eye,
Black Flag,
Lalo Schifrin,
Wings,
Suicide,
Das Ding,
Alton Ellis,
Sister Nancy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Quantec,
The Raincoats,
Hoover,
Nico,
The Mojo Men,
Shuggie Otis,
Fat Boys,
Ultravox,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.