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 Vietnam and from Paris.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Jeff Lynne to the electroclash 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 John Lydon. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oppenheimer Analysis 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doobie Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
The Sonics,
Agent Orange,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Japan,
Jacques Brel,
Schoolly D,
Ornette Coleman,
Minny Pops,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Essential Logic,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Gories,
Groovy Waters,
Country Teasers,
The Motions,
Amon Düül,
Audionom,
Gong,
Rosa Yemen,
Crispy Ambulance,
Brass Construction,
the Swans,
The Walker Brothers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Barracudas,
The Mummies,
Gichy Dan,
In Retrospect,
Gabor Szabo,
Delta 5,
John Cale,
Jacob Miller,
The Dead C,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Vainqueur,
Public Enemy,
The Neon Judgement,
Chris & Cosey,
AZ,
Fatback Band,
Slick Rick,
Rotary Connection,
The Standells,
Drexciya,
Scion,
Eric Dolphy,
Warren Ellis,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Remains,
The Gap Band,
The Count Five,
Duran Duran,
10cc,
Au Pairs,
The Names,
Massinfluence,
Newcleus,
Silicon Teens,
Kerrie Biddell,
Ken Boothe,
Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle.
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.