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 Namibia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the guitar 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 Smog to the rock 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 Wolf Eyes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
The Remains,
Minor Threat,
The Grass Roots,
Jeff Mills,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Roxy Music,
Average White Band,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Dual Sessions,
The Young Rascals,
Sister Nancy,
DNA,
Black Bananas,
Jeru the Damaja,
Quadrant,
Derrick Morgan,
Tommy Roe,
Patti Smith,
Althea and Donna,
Skarface,
Parry Music,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Jesper Dahlback,
Colin Newman,
Monolake,
Amazonics,
Lalann,
Country Teasers,
Fugazi,
Avey Tare,
Rekid,
Cheater Slicks,
Dawn Penn,
Pagans,
Underground Resistance,
Glenn Branca,
The Electric Prunes,
Henry Cow,
Bronski Beat,
The Shadows of Knight,
T. Rex,
Skaos,
Angry Samoans,
The Move,
Buzzcocks,
Gabor Szabo,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sonny Sharrock,
Hot Snakes,
the Slits,
The Residents,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rod Modell,
Grauzone,
The Red Krayola,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.