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 Japan and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the organ 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 Infiniti to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Royal Trux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
B.T. Express,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Terrestrial Tones,
The United States of America,
Nils Olav,
Bizarre Inc.,
Tommy Roe,
The Toasters,
Scan 7,
Sonny Sharrock,
Al Stewart,
The Last Poets,
The Durutti Column,
Pole,
Pantaleimon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sound Behaviour,
David McCallum,
Sandy B,
Iggy Pop,
48th St. Collective,
Mark Hollis,
Lindisfarne,
Chris & Cosey,
Byron Stingily,
Yellowson,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Victims,
The Techniques,
Laurel Aitken,
Moby Grape,
Zapp,
The Birthday Party,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bobby Sherman,
Boz Scaggs,
Grauzone,
Davy DMX,
Mr. Review,
Mission of Burma,
Japan,
Mad Mike,
Half Japanese,
Royal Trux,
MDC,
Lakeside,
Crispian St. Peters,
Intrusion,
the Swans,
Cameo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Dead Boys,
The Gun Club,
Monolake,
Gang Gang Dance,
Inner City,
June of 44,
Radiohead,
Talk Talk,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls.
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.