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 Indonesia and from Lyon.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bobby Hutcherson. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fifty Foot Hose 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultra Naté record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Second Layer,
Simply Red,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Pop Group,
Maurizio,
Peter and Kerry,
MC5,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Harmonia,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Neil Young,
Deakin,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Minutemen,
The Skatalites,
Skaos,
Qualms,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Judy Mowatt,
Todd Rundgren,
Jeff Lynne,
Tomorrow,
John Holt,
Silicon Teens,
Flipper,
FM Einheit,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Delta 5,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alice Coltrane,
Cluster,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Excepter,
Minnie Riperton,
Archie Shepp,
Gang Green,
Man Parrish,
La Düsseldorf,
Sexual Harrassment,
OOIOO,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Delon & Dalcan,
David Bowie,
The Monochrome Set,
Jacob Miller,
Joensuu 1685,
Flash Fearless,
Bill Wells,
Mars,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Marshall Jefferson,
Erasure,
Radio Birdman,
Darondo,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eli Mardock,
Fatback Band,
Tears for Fears,
Smog,
Henry Cow,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.