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 Gabon and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the 808 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 10cc to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All The Saints tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeru the Damaja record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Jeff Lynne,
Sound Behaviour,
Duran Duran,
The Five Americans,
Country Teasers,
B.T. Express,
Visage,
Make Up,
DNA,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Smiths,
Babytalk,
Lower 48,
Letta Mbulu,
Jacques Brel,
KRS-One,
Black Moon,
The Standells,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Dirtbombs,
New Age Steppers,
The Golliwogs,
Radiohead,
Shuggie Otis,
Accadde A,
Minny Pops,
Animal Collective,
Kas Product,
The Count Five,
Swans,
Supertramp,
Anthony Braxton,
Audionom,
Yusef Lateef,
Aloha Tigers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Invisible,
Hoover,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
John Lydon,
Tubeway Army,
The Grass Roots,
The Busters,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Amazonics,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Rhythm & Sound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Davy DMX,
Steve Hackett,
Surgeon,
Radiopuhelimet,
Subhumans,
E-Dancer,
Young Marble Giants,
Lungfish,
Crooked Eye,
Hashim,
Trumans Water,
ABBA, ABBA, ABBA, ABBA.
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.