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 Latvia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 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 Howard Jones to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magazine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Bluetip,
Saccharine Trust,
Sixth Finger,
Con Funk Shun,
The Vogues,
The Blues Magoos,
Livin' Joy,
Loose Ends,
Swell Maps,
Toni Rubio,
Joe Smooth,
Minny Pops,
Visage,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Deepchord,
H. Thieme,
Susan Cadogan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Jeff Lynne,
Parry Music,
The Move,
Crash Course in Science,
Swans,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Velvet Underground,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Newcleus,
The Raincoats,
June Days,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lou Reed,
F. McDonald,
The Associates,
ABC,
Quantec,
Mantronix,
Technova,
Amon Düül II,
Unwound,
Section 25,
Lightning Bolt,
Shoche,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Flamin' Groovies,
Alton Ellis,
Minor Threat,
John Lydon,
Marvin Gaye,
Grauzone,
Bang On A Can,
Underground Resistance,
Harmonia,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Derrick Morgan,
Soulsonic Force,
Silicon Teens,
The Searchers,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.