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 Rwanda and from London.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 Faust to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
Blake Baxter,
Young Marble Giants,
New Order,
Panda Bear,
Flipper,
Massinfluence,
Eyeless In Gaza,
DNA,
Freddie Wadling,
Pantaleimon,
LL Cool J,
Thompson Twins,
Lakeside,
James White and The Blacks,
OOIOO,
Man Parrish,
The Leaves,
Crooked Eye,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Spandau Ballet,
The Fortunes,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Fela Kuti,
Rites of Spring,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
John Holt,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Dave Gahan,
The Dirtbombs,
Eric B and Rakim,
Hoover,
Dark Day,
Delta 5,
The Buckinghams,
The Divine Comedy,
Johnny Osbourne,
Marshall Jefferson,
Nik Kershaw,
Little Man,
Hasil Adkins,
Ralphi Rosario,
Erykah Badu,
Kevin Saunderson,
Wings,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Oblivians,
Carl Craig,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sister Nancy,
Theoretical Girls,
La Düsseldorf,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eric Copeland,
Joey Negro,
Loose Ends,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Terry Callier,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.