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 Korea South and from Taipei.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Michael McDonald 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 Michelle Simonal to the punk 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 Procol Harum. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Icehouse,
Guru Guru,
The Techniques,
Cheater Slicks,
Television,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Soft Cell,
Flipper,
New Order,
Los Fastidios,
Erasure,
Spoonie Gee,
The Dave Clark Five,
Wire,
ABBA,
Echospace,
Robert Wyatt,
Nico,
Scott Walker,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Susan Cadogan,
Scientists,
Lightning Bolt,
Terry Callier,
The Fall,
Sex Pistols,
The Doors,
Scion,
The Mojo Men,
Absolute Body Control,
Flash Fearless,
Von Mondo,
Sight & Sound,
Hot Snakes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kevin Saunderson,
the Human League,
Fear,
Make Up,
Scan 7,
Ludus,
Michelle Simonal,
Darondo,
Sandy B,
Freddie Wadling,
Vladislav Delay,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Royal Trux,
the Slits,
Faust,
The Golliwogs,
The Smoke,
Rapeman,
The Neon Judgement,
Fatback Band,
The Modern Lovers,
Warsaw,
Gang Green,
Iggy Pop,
The Trojans,
Aswad, Aswad, Aswad, Aswad.
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.