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 Georgia 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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Simply Red to the disco 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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
John Cale,
Warsaw,
Neu!,
The Moleskins,
Yazoo,
Subhumans,
Accadde A,
The United States of America,
Derrick Morgan,
Trumans Water,
Pierre Henry,
Barclay James Harvest,
Monks,
Judy Mowatt,
Todd Rundgren,
Deadbeat,
The Evens,
Whodini,
The Fugs,
Jesper Dahlback,
Popol Vuh,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Happenings,
Von Mondo,
Aural Exciters,
China Crisis,
The New Christs,
Drexciya,
Bad Manners,
Heaven 17,
Supertramp,
Amon Düül II,
Kool Moe Dee,
Q and Not U,
New Order,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Joey Negro,
The Remains,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fugazi,
Dorothy Ashby,
Nico,
The Red Krayola,
Ronan,
Yellowson,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Boz Scaggs,
Bobbi Humphrey,
FM Einheit,
Adolescents,
Reagan Youth,
The Fuzztones,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Inner City,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Joyce Sims,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Shoche,
Iggy Pop,
Andrew Hill,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.