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 Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the oboe 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kenny Larkin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
The Birthday Party,
Scratch Acid,
Gregory Isaacs,
Man Parrish,
Section 25,
The Knickerbockers,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Outsiders,
PIL,
The Sound,
Stiv Bators,
Popol Vuh,
The Divine Comedy,
The Saints,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Circle Jerks,
a-ha,
Ossler,
Electric Prunes,
The Monks,
Fat Boys,
Hashim,
T. Rex,
Boredoms,
Traffic Nightmare,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Index,
Soulsonic Force,
Moby Grape,
The Pretty Things,
Barry Ungar,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Brass Construction,
The Blackbyrds,
Soul Sonic Force,
Zapp,
The Dead C,
UT,
The Offenders,
Brothers Johnson,
Soul II Soul,
Dead Boys,
Davy DMX,
Hasil Adkins,
Marvin Gaye,
Prince Buster,
The Red Krayola,
Mars,
Iggy Pop,
Yazoo,
The Moleskins,
ABC,
Cecil Taylor,
Second Layer,
Ponytail,
James White and The Blacks,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Main Source,
Scott Walker,
The Toasters,
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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.