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 Sri Lanka and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 linndrum 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 Searchers to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Beasts of Bourbon 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Talk Talk,
Sandy B,
Cameo,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Residents,
Jawbox,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bobby Womack,
Glambeats Corp.,
Drive Like Jehu,
Groovy Waters,
Bush Tetras,
World's Most,
The Techniques,
Mad Mike,
Agent Orange,
Gerry Rafferty,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Associates,
Fad Gadget,
Negative Approach,
The Raincoats,
Babytalk,
Index,
The Grass Roots,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Surgeon,
Tres Demented,
Jandek,
Crispian St. Peters,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Fela Kuti,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Electric Prunes,
The Neon Judgement,
Supertramp,
Pharoah Sanders,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Brass Construction,
Au Pairs,
Bluetip,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Smoke,
The Cramps,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jeff Mills,
cv313,
Dark Day,
Altered Images,
Dave Gahan,
Reuben Wilson,
Hot Snakes,
Sonny Sharrock,
Mantronix,
Quadrant,
The Stooges,
The Seeds,
Albert Ayler,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.