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 Mexico and from Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Kenny Larkin to the punk 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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arab on Radar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Nation of Ulysses,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Morten Harket,
Kenny Larkin,
Mission of Burma,
Crooked Eye,
Pierre Henry,
Junior Murvin,
The Remains,
The Monochrome Set,
Accadde A,
Todd Terry,
Black Flag,
Cybotron,
Quando Quango,
Bobbi Humphrey,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Wolf Eyes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Michelle Simonal,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lower 48,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bush Tetras,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Moss Icon,
Basic Channel,
The Barracudas,
Ronan,
The Sound,
Altered Images,
Roxette,
Procol Harum,
Moebius,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jandek,
Sexual Harrassment,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Delta 5,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Loose Ends,
Fad Gadget,
Make Up,
The Real Kids,
Mr. Review,
Flipper,
The Techniques,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Angels of Light,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Index,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Invisible,
LL Cool J,
The Red Krayola,
Godley & Creme,
Television Personalities,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.