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 Ghana and from Columbus.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Freddie Wadling to the crunk 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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
48th St. Collective,
Clear Light,
The Gap Band,
Make Up,
Marvin Gaye,
La Düsseldorf,
X-101,
Alton Ellis,
Silicon Teens,
Slave,
Guru Guru,
Second Layer,
The Neon Judgement,
The Vogues,
The Cure,
Rosa Yemen,
Wire,
Monolake,
Radio Birdman,
Bill Wells,
Thee Headcoats,
Flipper,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Sisters of Mercy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Graham Central Station,
These Immortal Souls,
Suburban Knight,
Au Pairs,
a-ha,
Kerri Chandler,
Tim Buckley,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Banda Bassotti,
Donald Byrd,
Deakin,
The Real Kids,
Camberwell Now,
Gang Green,
The Sound,
Barrington Levy,
Quando Quango,
Quantec,
Massinfluence,
Throbbing Gristle,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Grandmaster Flash,
Urselle,
Outsiders,
Groovy Waters,
Anakelly,
Gang of Four,
Amon Düül,
Moss Icon,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Shuggie Otis,
Duran Duran,
Monks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
In Retrospect,
Peter & Gordon,
Lindisfarne,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.