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 Mongolia and from Copenhagen.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Josef K to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Circle Jerks,
Byron Stingily,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sandy B,
Duran Duran,
Lalann,
Sister Nancy,
Bush Tetras,
Quantec,
Throbbing Gristle,
Alison Limerick,
The Doors,
Gichy Dan,
the Swans,
The Cosmic Jokers,
One Last Wish,
Neu!,
Soulsonic Force,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Eric Copeland,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Scrapy,
Niagra,
James White and The Blacks,
New Age Steppers,
Nirvana,
Heaven 17,
Crispy Ambulance,
Wings,
Slick Rick,
The Invisible,
Ponytail,
Easy Going,
The Busters,
Sixth Finger,
Colin Newman,
The Gap Band,
Wolf Eyes,
Tom Boy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lindisfarne,
Al Stewart,
MC5,
Boz Scaggs,
PIL,
Morten Harket,
Supertramp,
The Sound,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kool Moe Dee,
Scott Walker,
Fatback Band,
Second Layer,
Black Moon,
The Skatalites,
Johnny Osbourne,
Blossom Toes,
Banda Bassotti,
Grey Daturas,
Vainqueur,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.