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 Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 guitar 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 Ten City to the grunge 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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
The Alarm Clocks,
Scrapy,
Average White Band,
David McCallum,
The Electric Prunes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Shoche,
The Knickerbockers,
Davy DMX,
Young Marble Giants,
Tres Demented,
Skarface,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Porter Ricks,
Curtis Mayfield,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Last Poets,
Pantaleimon,
The Barracudas,
MC5,
Motorama,
Laurel Aitken,
Minnie Riperton,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Guru Guru,
Animal Collective,
Yusef Lateef,
The Mummies,
The Cowsills,
Donald Byrd,
Camberwell Now,
10cc,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Monks,
Audionom,
Second Layer,
Todd Rundgren,
Crash Course in Science,
Thompson Twins,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Tommy Roe,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ultravox,
The Kinks,
Gang Starr,
The Trojans,
Marc Almond,
Stetsasonic,
In Retrospect,
Mary Jane Girls,
Pulsallama,
The Mojo Men,
Accadde A,
The Invisible,
JFA,
Buzzcocks,
Wasted Youth,
Rhythm & Sound,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.