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 Costa Rica and from Hong Kong.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mexico City.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Peter & Gordon to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jerry's Kids,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Anakelly,
Gang Green,
The Gladiators,
Jawbox,
Sonny Sharrock,
June Days,
Sun City Girls,
Donny Hathaway,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sam Rivers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Black Bananas,
UT,
John Foxx,
Gang of Four,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Essential Logic,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jeff Mills,
Ice-T,
Terrestrial Tones,
The United States of America,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Wake,
Freddie Wadling,
Pierre Henry,
The Residents,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lungfish,
Bad Manners,
Arthur Verocai,
Outsiders,
Aloha Tigers,
Cameo,
Albert Ayler,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Music Machine,
CMW,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Fugs,
Moby Grape,
The Kinks,
Wasted Youth,
The Techniques,
KRS-One,
Dave Gahan,
Fort Wilson Riot,
New York Dolls,
Nick Fraelich,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Amon Düül II,
Moebius,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Golliwogs,
Gregory Isaacs,
Marcia Griffiths,
Hardrive,
Slick Rick,
Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane.
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.