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 Korea North and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Mars to the techno 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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Iggy Pop record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cowsills,
Minutemen,
Organ,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Charles Mingus,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Yusef Lateef,
Sonic Youth,
Neu!,
Altered Images,
Simply Red,
Robert Görl,
The Divine Comedy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Nils Olav,
The Martian,
Lou Christie,
Bauhaus,
Dennis Brown,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Camberwell Now,
Ten City,
Johnny Clarke,
Blake Baxter,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Vogues,
CMW,
Panda Bear,
Arcadia,
The Sound,
Negative Approach,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Intrusion,
The Searchers,
Joey Negro,
The Beau Brummels,
Ronnie Foster,
Soft Machine,
Cymande,
Wire,
The Shadows of Knight,
Chrome,
Procol Harum,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Offenders,
Skarface,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
the Association,
Mad Mike,
The Gladiators,
The Index,
The Wake,
Smog,
the Fania All-Stars,
Stiv Bators,
Pylon,
Mark Hollis,
Godley & Creme,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Toasters,
Fear,
Connie Case,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.