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 Kenya and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 theremin 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 Absolute Body Control to the jazz 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 Boredoms. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
The Mummies,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ken Boothe,
Don Cherry,
Man Parrish,
Dual Sessions,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
EPMD,
Susan Cadogan,
The Knickerbockers,
The Birthday Party,
Jandek,
Desert Stars,
Parry Music,
The Gladiators,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Busters,
Judy Mowatt,
E-Dancer,
The Modern Lovers,
Eve St. Jones,
Swell Maps,
Black Moon,
Hashim,
Absolute Body Control,
Fugazi,
Letta Mbulu,
Pole,
David Bowie,
Kayak,
Minny Pops,
Pulsallama,
The Count Five,
Prince Buster,
Blossom Toes,
Silicon Teens,
Masters at Work,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Trojans,
Jimmy McGriff,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sonic Youth,
Scan 7,
Qualms,
Tom Boy,
Thompson Twins,
Guru Guru,
Eric B and Rakim,
Nas,
Derrick May,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Amazonics,
Circle Jerks,
Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band.
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.