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 Luxembourg and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 chamberlin 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 Public Image Ltd. to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Y Pants. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wally Richardson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Iggy Pop,
Soul II Soul,
Peter & Gordon,
Eve St. Jones,
Skriet,
Oneida,
Lindisfarne,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kurtis Blow,
Danielle Patucci,
MC5,
Soft Cell,
Anthony Braxton,
New York Dolls,
Make Up,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Fuzztones,
The Velvet Underground,
Scott Walker,
Kayak,
Black Flag,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Searchers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
LL Cool J,
Bobby Hutcherson,
the Swans,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Moody Blues,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Todd Terry,
Jacques Brel,
Reuben Wilson,
Connie Case,
Sarah Menescal,
JFA,
Spoonie Gee,
Blossom Toes,
Cymande,
Grauzone,
Stereo Dub,
Stockholm Monsters,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Sound,
Ultravox,
The Raincoats,
Alphaville,
Sonny Sharrock,
Scan 7,
Ronnie Foster,
Donny Hathaway,
Gang Starr,
Jerry's Kids,
Tres Demented,
Yaz,
Lou Reed,
Con Funk Shun,
The Slackers,
the Human League,
Todd Rundgren,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.