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 Madagascar and from Bologna.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 808 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 Anakelly to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wings,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Steve Hackett,
Chris Corsano,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gichy Dan,
Slave,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ultimate Spinach,
Harmonia,
Oblivians,
Amazonics,
Mandrill,
Kevin Saunderson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Tim Buckley,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Trumans Water,
The Invisible,
Thompson Twins,
Parry Music,
Intrusion,
Nas,
Lou Reed,
Sparks,
Joy Division,
The Fuzztones,
The Fire Engines,
Model 500,
Wasted Youth,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Happenings,
Stetsasonic,
Whodini,
Junior Murvin,
The Young Rascals,
MC5,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Eli Mardock,
Gerry Rafferty,
Arab on Radar,
Spoonie Gee,
Vladislav Delay,
The Dave Clark Five,
Soft Machine,
Aaron Thompson,
the Human League,
Negative Approach,
Sarah Menescal,
The Neon Judgement,
Accadde A,
Johnny Clarke,
Cluster,
Blancmange,
Prince Buster,
The Beau Brummels,
The Standells,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Howard Jones,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen.
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.