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 Greece and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the güiro 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 Sun Ra Arkestra to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Junior Murvin. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
Quando Quango,
The Techniques,
Sam Rivers,
The Happenings,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sandy B,
the Human League,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lou Reed,
The Seeds,
Public Enemy,
The Offenders,
The Fire Engines,
Kerrie Biddell,
Angry Samoans,
Brass Construction,
Slick Rick,
MC5,
Theoretical Girls,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Leaves,
Sight & Sound,
Rufus Thomas,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
David Bowie,
Dead Boys,
Goldenarms,
Adolescents,
L. Decosne,
Sparks,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rod Modell,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dawn Penn,
Pagans,
Second Layer,
Lindisfarne,
Blancmange,
Wasted Youth,
The Smoke,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Magazine,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Scion,
The Fortunes,
Isaac Hayes,
The Standells,
Eli Mardock,
Crispian St. Peters,
Chris Corsano,
The Motions,
Liliput,
Idris Muhammad,
Yusef Lateef,
Jacob Miller,
Visage,
Country Teasers,
Main Source,
Whodini,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.