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 Israel and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All The Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Flag,
kango's stein massive,
Urselle,
Connie Case,
Kool Moe Dee,
Altered Images,
Mad Mike,
Suicide,
Albert Ayler,
Hot Snakes,
Stereo Dub,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jacques Brel,
Joyce Sims,
The Motions,
Alphaville,
Jacob Miller,
Japan,
Maleditus Sound,
Supertramp,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
MDC,
The Dirtbombs,
Warren Ellis,
Darondo,
Crispian St. Peters,
KRS-One,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Chrome,
Fela Kuti,
Barrington Levy,
Quadrant,
Magma,
Main Source,
Erasure,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Aloha Tigers,
L. Decosne,
John Foxx,
Dark Day,
Visage,
Harry Pussy,
Niagra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lucky Dragons,
The J.B.'s,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Litter,
Roxette,
Au Pairs,
Derrick May,
Fat Boys,
Black Moon,
Throbbing Gristle,
Johnny Clarke,
The Gap Band,
In Retrospect,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Grass Roots,
Prince Buster,
Spandau Ballet,
Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers.
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.