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 Germany and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Michelle Simonal to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All The Selecter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ten City,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Offenders,
Letta Mbulu,
The Mighty Diamonds,
China Crisis,
Silicon Teens,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bauhaus,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ronnie Foster,
Faraquet,
Arcadia,
Idris Muhammad,
The Trojans,
This Heat,
Tears for Fears,
Harmonia,
The Vogues,
Intrusion,
Absolute Body Control,
Black Flag,
The Dirtbombs,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ituana,
Mission of Burma,
The Walker Brothers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
OOIOO,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
EPMD,
The Velvet Underground,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Prince Buster,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Television Personalities,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ponytail,
Schoolly D,
Neil Young,
Marine Girls,
Japan,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Happenings,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Knickerbockers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Robert Wyatt,
The Neon Judgement,
D'Angelo,
Flash Fearless,
Bang On A Can,
Rhythm & Sound,
Tom Boy,
Rakim,
Davy DMX,
Ralphi Rosario,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.