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 Seychelles and from Bremen.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bauhaus to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Germs. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moody Blues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nik Kershaw,
Banda Bassotti,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Faraquet,
The Smoke,
The Star Department,
Sarah Menescal,
John Lydon,
The Cramps,
The Black Dice,
Lungfish,
Marvin Gaye,
Darondo,
John Cale,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Vogues,
Grey Daturas,
Gang of Four,
Dual Sessions,
Ralphi Rosario,
Tres Demented,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Morten Harket,
Oblivians,
Moss Icon,
Ponytail,
The Seeds,
DNA,
The Move,
LL Cool J,
Kerrie Biddell,
Parry Music,
Cymande,
Slick Rick,
Funkadelic,
Black Sheep,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Camberwell Now,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Steve Hackett,
Henry Cow,
Lakeside,
Leonard Cohen,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bush Tetras,
David Axelrod,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
X-101,
U.S. Maple,
Metal Thangz,
Cybotron,
Byron Stingily,
Pantaleimon,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bobby Hutcherson,
June Days,
Skaos,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Terrestrial Tones,
The United States of America,
Gong,
Colin Newman,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.