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 Vanuatu and from Taipei.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Fifty Foot Hose to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure 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 spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Schoolly D,
Amon Düül II,
Hasil Adkins,
Agent Orange,
Camberwell Now,
John Holt,
Sixth Finger,
The Young Rascals,
Young Marble Giants,
Kayak,
Ultravox,
Bush Tetras,
The Misunderstood,
Y Pants,
The Dead C,
Barrington Levy,
E-Dancer,
Interpol,
John Coltrane,
Gang Green,
Lower 48,
Girls At Our Best!,
MC5,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
David McCallum,
Cymande,
These Immortal Souls,
Circle Jerks,
B.T. Express,
Thompson Twins,
Subhumans,
Pagans,
OOIOO,
The Beau Brummels,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Moby Grape,
Thee Headcoats,
the Human League,
The Durutti Column,
Eden Ahbez,
New Age Steppers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gang Gang Dance,
Arcadia,
Kaleidoscope,
Crime,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Knickerbockers,
Don Cherry,
The Evens,
Flipper,
Nik Kershaw,
DNA,
The Mojo Men,
Faraquet,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Soulsonic Force,
Letta Mbulu,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.