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 Bhutan 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the jazz 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 Tommy Roe. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every R.M.O. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gang Starr,
New Age Steppers,
Neil Young,
Yaz,
The Mojo Men,
David McCallum,
Rhythm & Sound,
Jacob Miller,
Cameo,
10cc,
Erykah Badu,
Josef K,
John Foxx,
Fluxion,
Mantronix,
The Residents,
Desert Stars,
The Durutti Column,
Cybotron,
The Fuzztones,
Arab on Radar,
Barrington Levy,
The Velvet Underground,
Henry Cow,
Schoolly D,
Crispy Ambulance,
Outsiders,
Kevin Saunderson,
Todd Terry,
The Tremeloes,
Todd Rundgren,
OOIOO,
Jerry's Kids,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
New Order,
Tres Demented,
the Association,
Absolute Body Control,
Clear Light,
Tommy Roe,
the Bar-Kays,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Jawbox,
Sight & Sound,
The Monks,
Archie Shepp,
Kerrie Biddell,
Eric B and Rakim,
T. Rex,
Alison Limerick,
Sugar Minott,
Agitation Free,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ohio Players,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.
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.