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 Angola and from Winnipeg.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Tehran.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Music Machine to the electroclash 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Letta Mbulu,
Q65,
Steve Hackett,
Johnny Clarke,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Delta 5,
Delon & Dalcan,
Howard Jones,
The Names,
Scrapy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pulsallama,
The Monochrome Set,
Severed Heads,
John Coltrane,
Scott Walker,
Deepchord,
Avey Tare,
Iggy Pop,
The Golliwogs,
Hot Snakes,
Babytalk,
Andrew Hill,
JFA,
Gang Gang Dance,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Charles Mingus,
The Saints,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bush Tetras,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Mummies,
Neu!,
Section 25,
Public Image Ltd.,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Scion,
The Angels of Light,
The Techniques,
Eddi Front,
The Slits,
Harmonia,
Dawn Penn,
Sight & Sound,
Terrestrial Tones,
These Immortal Souls,
Brand Nubian,
The Doobie Brothers,
Unrelated Segments,
David McCallum,
Urselle,
Index,
Los Fastidios,
The Offenders,
Jacob Miller,
Average White Band,
Anthony Braxton,
Marc Almond,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Soft Cell,
Crime,
The Mojo Men,
EPMD,
The Move, The Move, The Move, The Move.
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.