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 Guinea and from Salvador.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the oboe 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 Half Japanese to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Gregory Isaacs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Hill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ice-T,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
U.S. Maple,
Livin' Joy,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Quando Quango,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Letta Mbulu,
Minor Threat,
Gastr Del Sol,
Make Up,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Urselle,
Agent Orange,
Underground Resistance,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Reuben Wilson,
The Cowsills,
The Associates,
Jacob Miller,
FM Einheit,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Doors,
Neu!,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Andrew Hill,
Jeff Lynne,
Piero Umiliani,
Grey Daturas,
Skriet,
The Mummies,
Banda Bassotti,
The Raincoats,
Visage,
the Human League,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The New Christs,
Black Pus,
Eve St. Jones,
Hardrive,
CMW,
The Monochrome Set,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Amazonics,
The Saints,
Sun City Girls,
Nils Olav,
Gong,
Delon & Dalcan,
OOIOO,
Judy Mowatt,
Sight & Sound,
Harmonia,
Youth Brigade,
MDC,
Deakin,
Saccharine Trust,
10cc,
Gang of Four,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.