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 Solomon Islands and from Tokyo.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Erykah Badu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
The Gories,
the Normal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Sonics,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nico,
Peter and Kerry,
Bob Dylan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Magazine,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mad Mike,
Davy DMX,
The Cowsills,
The Angels of Light,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Barracudas,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Names,
Jandek,
Black Flag,
Minnie Riperton,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Vogues,
Sandy B,
Matthew Halsall,
The Remains,
The Alarm Clocks,
Nation of Ulysses,
a-ha,
KRS-One,
D'Angelo,
Altered Images,
Au Pairs,
Arcadia,
Ponytail,
Yellowson,
the Slits,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Echospace,
The Stooges,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ice-T,
The Walker Brothers,
Andrew Hill,
Max Romeo,
Siglo XX,
Warsaw,
Sound Behaviour,
Eric Copeland,
Derrick Morgan,
Funky Four + One,
Hoover,
Infiniti,
Black Moon,
K-Klass,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Rhythm & Sound,
Alison Limerick,
Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett.
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.