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 Sri Lanka and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Agitation Free to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All Gerry Rafferty tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rosa Yemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Tremeloes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Wolf Eyes,
Jeff Lynne,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Connie Case,
Nirvana,
Mr. Review,
Lalann,
Supertramp,
The Fugs,
Matthew Bourne,
Ludus,
Scratch Acid,
David Bowie,
Sly & The Family Stone,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter and Kerry,
Soft Machine,
China Crisis,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Real Kids,
Stetsasonic,
Royal Trux,
Circle Jerks,
Scan 7,
Intrusion,
Cybotron,
The Invisible,
Marine Girls,
Pole,
The Offenders,
Nils Olav,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lucky Dragons,
kango's stein massive,
These Immortal Souls,
B.T. Express,
Sexual Harrassment,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Roxette,
Sister Nancy,
Black Moon,
Derrick Morgan,
Gabor Szabo,
Byron Stingily,
Gang of Four,
Lou Reed,
Joe Finger,
Kerri Chandler,
Duran Duran,
The Busters,
Camouflage,
The Associates,
AZ,
Jacques Brel,
Graham Central Station,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Clear Light,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.