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 Monaco and from Tehran.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 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 Von Mondo to the funk 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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Charles Mingus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy Collins,
Unrelated Segments,
The Mojo Men,
The Dead C,
the Normal,
Q and Not U,
Chrome,
Lalo Schifrin,
Letta Mbulu,
Girls At Our Best!,
Fear,
Motorama,
The Count Five,
The Modern Lovers,
Fugazi,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lee Hazlewood,
Michelle Simonal,
Massinfluence,
Derrick May,
Boredoms,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Derrick Morgan,
Oblivians,
Alton Ellis,
Eddi Front,
Nik Kershaw,
The Smiths,
Peter & Gordon,
Carl Craig,
Laurel Aitken,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Public Enemy,
Yusef Lateef,
Ornette Coleman,
DNA,
Yazoo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rekid,
Henry Cow,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Tubeway Army,
Vladislav Delay,
Cal Tjader,
Davy DMX,
Donny Hathaway,
DJ Sneak,
Little Man,
Joyce Sims,
New York Dolls,
Soul II Soul,
Roxy Music,
The Fire Engines,
Newcleus,
The Stooges,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Stockholm Monsters,
Supertramp,
K-Klass,
The Alarm Clocks,
Mad Mike,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Doors, The Doors, The Doors, The Doors.
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.