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 Papua New Guinea and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Organ to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Smog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fat Boys,
The Names,
Brick,
Kaleidoscope,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Wally Richardson,
Roxy Music,
Leonard Cohen,
Lindisfarne,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Section 25,
The Happenings,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Marc Almond,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gabor Szabo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Babytalk,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Toni Rubio,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Shuggie Otis,
The Cramps,
The Fall,
Slick Rick,
Yazoo,
Camberwell Now,
John Cale,
R.M.O.,
cv313,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Busters,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Joy Division,
The Toasters,
T.S.O.L.,
Gastr Del Sol,
DNA,
The Move,
Jandek,
Tres Demented,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Howard Jones,
Alice Coltrane,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
MC5,
Porter Ricks,
the Soft Cell,
the Swans,
Animal Collective,
Bobby Sherman,
Soul Sonic Force,
Scratch Acid,
DJ Style,
Eli Mardock,
Bootsy Collins,
FM Einheit,
Soulsonic Force,
Roger Hodgson,
The Buckinghams,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel.
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.