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 Uganda and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 chamberlin 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 Icehouse to the rock 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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suburban Knight,
Banda Bassotti,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Crispy Ambulance,
Minnie Riperton,
Kaleidoscope,
In Retrospect,
Lungfish,
Wings,
Second Layer,
JFA,
Danielle Patucci,
The Smiths,
Tubeway Army,
Dark Day,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Arab on Radar,
Lebanon Hanover,
Maleditus Sound,
The Gladiators,
Grey Daturas,
The Sonics,
Bronski Beat,
Agitation Free,
Masters at Work,
Model 500,
Kerri Chandler,
Bad Manners,
Easy Going,
Brass Construction,
Junior Murvin,
The Shadows of Knight,
Supertramp,
Rosa Yemen,
The Cramps,
DNA,
Shuggie Otis,
the Human League,
Erasure,
Kayak,
Kas Product,
Kenny Larkin,
Chris Corsano,
Clear Light,
Rotary Connection,
Half Japanese,
Peter and Kerry,
Neil Young,
Babytalk,
Scion,
Sam Rivers,
Parry Music,
The Mojo Men,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Associates,
The Walker Brothers,
Michelle Simonal,
Aloha Tigers,
Malaria!,
Amon Düül,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Hashim,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.