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 Germany and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Lyon and Bologna.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Vainqueur to the grunge 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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Agitation Free,
The Seeds,
Accadde A,
Unwound,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Quando Quango,
Althea and Donna,
Y Pants,
Can,
Amon Düül II,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Blossom Toes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Maleditus Sound,
Lindisfarne,
AZ,
Little Man,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Delon & Dalcan,
Joe Smooth,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Derrick Morgan,
Audionom,
Blancmange,
The Moody Blues,
Todd Rundgren,
The Kinks,
Minutemen,
Tomorrow,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Eden Ahbez,
Ten City,
Deadbeat,
Junior Murvin,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Derrick May,
Swans,
Los Fastidios,
Infiniti,
Subhumans,
Skaos,
Tubeway Army,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mandrill,
R.M.O.,
Mo-Dettes,
Icehouse,
Toni Rubio,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Music Machine,
Con Funk Shun,
Cheater Slicks,
Half Japanese,
Godley & Creme,
David McCallum,
Grauzone,
The United States of America,
Spandau Ballet,
Dark Day,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft.
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.