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 Afghanistan and from Lagos.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Slave to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Fall. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
Easy Going,
Girls At Our Best!,
Mantronix,
T. Rex,
Rotary Connection,
Monolake,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Negative Approach,
Howard Jones,
The Victims,
Flamin' Groovies,
John Foxx,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Star Department,
Roxette,
Pylon,
Deadbeat,
David McCallum,
Pere Ubu,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Scion,
the Normal,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eurythmics,
Q and Not U,
Ten City,
Nirvana,
The Busters,
FM Einheit,
The Standells,
Section 25,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Newcleus,
Niagra,
Judy Mowatt,
Thee Headcoats,
Robert Wyatt,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
the Soft Cell,
Stetsasonic,
The Knickerbockers,
D'Angelo,
LL Cool J,
R.M.O.,
World's Most,
Archie Shepp,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Toasters,
Adolescents,
The Kinks,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Reuben Wilson,
Ultimate Spinach,
UT,
Dead Boys,
Soulsonic Force,
Joensuu 1685,
Derrick Morgan,
Throbbing Gristle,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.