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 Paraguay and from Madrid.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Tehran.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 John Cale to the disco 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 The Raincoats. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Kinks,
Supertramp,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Erykah Badu,
Wings,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Outsiders,
Todd Rundgren,
China Crisis,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Oblivians,
Jimmy McGriff,
Swell Maps,
Royal Trux,
Jacob Miller,
Kayak,
Thompson Twins,
Pharoah Sanders,
Barbara Tucker,
Groovy Waters,
Arthur Verocai,
Schoolly D,
Aural Exciters,
Danielle Patucci,
Babytalk,
Minnie Riperton,
Lungfish,
Metal Thangz,
Symarip,
Easy Going,
Make Up,
Lou Reed,
Amon Düül,
cv313,
Buzzcocks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gil Scott Heron,
Shuggie Otis,
John Coltrane,
The Moleskins,
Glambeats Corp.,
James White and The Blacks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bauhaus,
the Association,
the Normal,
Michelle Simonal,
Kerri Chandler,
Can,
The Move,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Spoonie Gee,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Aswad,
Fela Kuti,
Bootsy Collins,
Gang Starr,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Arcadia,
Black Sheep,
Davy DMX,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.