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 Romania and from Copenhagen.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 PIL to the disco 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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All London Community Gospel Choir tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Lightning Bolt,
Harmonia,
Isaac Hayes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Young Rascals,
Stetsasonic,
a-ha,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ice-T,
Funkadelic,
Joy Division,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Happenings,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Scion,
Blossom Toes,
Brick,
Aloha Tigers,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
UT,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
F. McDonald,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kaleidoscope,
Surgeon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Tomorrow,
Lalo Schifrin,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Theoretical Girls,
Delta 5,
Technova,
Dave Gahan,
T.S.O.L.,
Half Japanese,
The Black Dice,
Rites of Spring,
Schoolly D,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Al Stewart,
Todd Rundgren,
Tres Demented,
10cc,
Jerry's Kids,
Rekid,
Lindisfarne,
The Birthday Party,
World's Most,
Bad Manners,
Gang Starr,
Minutemen,
The Gories,
Yaz,
Roxy Music,
Flipper,
Wally Richardson,
Pantaleimon,
Youth Brigade,
New York Dolls,
June Days,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.