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 Slovenia and from Milan.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 rhodes 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 Nas to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Moleskins. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fall,
Q and Not U,
Ludus,
The Slits,
Rufus Thomas,
Josef K,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Anthony Braxton,
Susan Cadogan,
The Blues Magoos,
Sonny Sharrock,
Toni Rubio,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cheater Slicks,
Kas Product,
The Gories,
Skarface,
Aural Exciters,
Peter and Kerry,
Todd Rundgren,
Brand Nubian,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Mission of Burma,
The Moody Blues,
Eric B and Rakim,
Shuggie Otis,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Glenn Branca,
Janne Schatter,
Quando Quango,
The Beau Brummels,
A Certain Ratio,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Martian,
Derrick May,
Jeff Mills,
Faraquet,
Albert Ayler,
Circle Jerks,
Siglo XX,
The Smiths,
Swell Maps,
Vladislav Delay,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Anakelly,
Steve Hackett,
Subhumans,
The Motions,
CMW,
Trumans Water,
Saccharine Trust,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Byron Stingily,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Count Five,
Lightning Bolt,
Radio Birdman,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.