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 Brazil and from Mumbai.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the oboe 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 Eden Ahbez to the rap 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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Absolute Body Control,
The Gap Band,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
New York Dolls,
the Swans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hardrive,
Essential Logic,
Radiopuhelimet,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Dead C,
Mandrill,
Camberwell Now,
David McCallum,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Stiv Bators,
Eddi Front,
Althea and Donna,
Mo-Dettes,
Sarah Menescal,
Sugar Minott,
Popol Vuh,
Agitation Free,
Second Layer,
Dave Gahan,
Lee Hazlewood,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Dual Sessions,
Duran Duran,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
EPMD,
Junior Murvin,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Shuggie Otis,
Robert Görl,
China Crisis,
Cal Tjader,
Marshall Jefferson,
Harmonia,
Maurizio,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Black Dice,
Boredoms,
Das Ding,
B.T. Express,
Urselle,
Morten Harket,
The Litter,
Neu!,
Kevin Saunderson,
Slave,
Pierre Henry,
Amazonics,
Quando Quango,
Infiniti,
Desert Stars,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Black Pus,
Cymande, Cymande, Cymande, Cymande.
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.