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 Mauritania and from Glasgow.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Supertramp to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Howard Jones. All the underground hits.
All Kings Of Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pulsallama,
Technova,
Amon Düül II,
Chrome,
Alison Limerick,
Roger Hodgson,
Kerri Chandler,
Marine Girls,
Skaos,
Brass Construction,
Nico,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
10cc,
Anakelly,
Archie Shepp,
Lee Hazlewood,
Don Cherry,
The Wake,
Tropical Tobacco,
James White and The Blacks,
Whodini,
kango's stein massive,
Nils Olav,
Desert Stars,
Bauhaus,
June of 44,
Mantronix,
Pharoah Sanders,
Mars,
Neil Young,
Panda Bear,
Mandrill,
Ronnie Foster,
Shuggie Otis,
Idris Muhammad,
Steve Hackett,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Hasil Adkins,
Dual Sessions,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Delta 5,
Model 500,
The Electric Prunes,
Gang of Four,
Bobby Womack,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Zeros,
Harpers Bizarre,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Barrington Levy,
Rufus Thomas,
Camouflage,
Roy Ayers,
Bob Dylan,
Matthew Bourne,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Tommy Roe,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.