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 Liberia and from Madrid.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Warren Ellis to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tubeway Army record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Inner City,
Schoolly D,
the Fania All-Stars,
Michelle Simonal,
DJ Style,
Thompson Twins,
Stetsasonic,
Bootsy Collins,
Au Pairs,
Organ,
ABC,
Andrew Hill,
Ohio Players,
Cecil Taylor,
Sam Rivers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Nas,
Kas Product,
Gong,
Visage,
Deadbeat,
Lindisfarne,
Warren Ellis,
Roy Ayers,
Roger Hodgson,
The Moody Blues,
Fela Kuti,
Television,
Fad Gadget,
Accadde A,
Porter Ricks,
10cc,
Terrestrial Tones,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Janne Schatter,
Joe Finger,
Drexciya,
Mission of Burma,
Mantronix,
Todd Rundgren,
Wally Richardson,
Nils Olav,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Young Rascals,
Procol Harum,
Yazoo,
a-ha,
Donald Byrd,
kango's stein massive,
Cymande,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
PIL,
Theoretical Girls,
The Offenders,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Marcia Griffiths,
Patti Smith,
Guru Guru,
New Age Steppers,
Joe Smooth,
Harry Pussy,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.