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 Greece and from Mumbai.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 DNA to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rosa Yemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tommy Roe,
The Vogues,
Deepchord,
D'Angelo,
The Sound,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Tears for Fears,
The Toasters,
The Modern Lovers,
Minutemen,
David Bowie,
Ituana,
Fluxion,
Essential Logic,
The Doobie Brothers,
Interpol,
Peter and Kerry,
The Fortunes,
Lakeside,
The Gap Band,
Todd Rundgren,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eve St. Jones,
Scion,
Lou Reed,
Fear,
Mo-Dettes,
Cymande,
Qualms,
John Lydon,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Scan 7,
The Residents,
Cameo,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Crooked Eye,
the Sonics,
Junior Murvin,
Ludus,
Malaria!,
Drexciya,
KRS-One,
Bobby Womack,
The Misunderstood,
Kas Product,
Avey Tare,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Cure,
Joe Smooth,
Jeff Lynne,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Eli Mardock,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kayak,
La Düsseldorf,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The New Christs,
The Searchers,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Youth Brigade,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.