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 Philippines and from Sao Paulo.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Gong to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flamin' Groovies 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Leaves,
Half Japanese,
Main Source,
Depeche Mode,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bang On A Can,
Nick Fraelich,
Eurythmics,
The Moody Blues,
Matthew Halsall,
Bill Wells,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Associates,
Buzzcocks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Saccharine Trust,
JFA,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Laurel Aitken,
Blake Baxter,
Ultra Naté,
Yusef Lateef,
Schoolly D,
The Star Department,
Joyce Sims,
Barclay James Harvest,
Technova,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Alice Coltrane,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Urselle,
The Black Dice,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Stetsasonic,
Niagra,
John Foxx,
Skarface,
Absolute Body Control,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Stiv Bators,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
10cc,
Sandy B,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
H. Thieme,
Terrestrial Tones,
the Slits,
Maleditus Sound,
The Cowsills,
Bauhaus,
The Seeds,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Youth Brigade,
Marcia Griffiths,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
New Age Steppers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
David Axelrod,
Jeff Lynne,
Big Daddy Kane,
Todd Rundgren,
The Monochrome Set,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.