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 Egypt and from Manila.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Erasure to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Susan Cadogan 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
China Crisis,
Warren Ellis,
Anthony Braxton,
Fat Boys,
Sun City Girls,
Panda Bear,
Aswad,
The Red Krayola,
Quadrant,
Howard Jones,
Bronski Beat,
Electric Prunes,
Swans,
Sun Ra,
Underground Resistance,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Aaron Thompson,
Television,
Suburban Knight,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Grass Roots,
Little Man,
Roy Ayers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fela Kuti,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Marmalade,
Y Pants,
Bill Wells,
Section 25,
Wolf Eyes,
Flamin' Groovies,
UT,
The Kinks,
Jeru the Damaja,
Accadde A,
Los Fastidios,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pulsallama,
The Wake,
U.S. Maple,
Agent Orange,
The Beau Brummels,
Magazine,
The Index,
Johnny Clarke,
Spandau Ballet,
The Durutti Column,
JFA,
The Happenings,
Sarah Menescal,
The Velvet Underground,
Sixth Finger,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Fluxion,
Fatback Band,
Harry Pussy,
Marvin Gaye,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
David Axelrod,
MC5,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.