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 Palau and from Beijing.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Five Americans. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flamin' Groovies 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suicide,
Qualms,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Popol Vuh,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
X-102,
Urselle,
The Cramps,
LL Cool J,
Mo-Dettes,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lower 48,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
E-Dancer,
Kurtis Blow,
The Misunderstood,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Can,
Panda Bear,
Negative Approach,
Warsaw,
The Gladiators,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Depeche Mode,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Yaz,
Don Cherry,
Eric Dolphy,
Chrome,
Index,
The Buckinghams,
Derrick May,
Minutemen,
David McCallum,
Lyres,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Star Department,
Soul II Soul,
Spoonie Gee,
Dave Gahan,
Ornette Coleman,
Jawbox,
The Divine Comedy,
Aloha Tigers,
Wire,
Pole,
Jeff Lynne,
Animal Collective,
Eurythmics,
Alphaville,
Aural Exciters,
Minor Threat,
Johnny Clarke,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Oblivians,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Selecter,
Bizarre Inc.,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
a-ha, a-ha, a-ha, a-ha.
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.