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 South Africa and from Houston.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Electric Light Orchestra 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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All The Vogues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Althea and Donna,
The Black Dice,
Procol Harum,
The Cramps,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Trumans Water,
Neil Young,
Essential Logic,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Amazonics,
The Gun Club,
Gong,
Freddie Wadling,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Con Funk Shun,
Crispy Ambulance,
Amon Düül II,
Eden Ahbez,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Divine Comedy,
Quantec,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Human League,
Lakeside,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
MC5,
Vladislav Delay,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
B.T. Express,
Moebius,
The Toasters,
Pole,
Nick Fraelich,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sixth Finger,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Tropical Tobacco,
Jerry's Kids,
Jandek,
Gang Gang Dance,
Matthew Bourne,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Dead C,
Ice-T,
Khruangbin,
Slave,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Aloha Tigers,
Sam Rivers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Brass Construction,
Wally Richardson,
The Barracudas,
The Residents,
Underground Resistance,
JFA,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.