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 Qatar and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Newcleus to the rap 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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
The Evens,
Technova,
Banda Bassotti,
Camouflage,
Pere Ubu,
Sun Ra,
Marine Girls,
Donny Hathaway,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
R.M.O.,
Theoretical Girls,
DJ Sneak,
Lebanon Hanover,
8 Eyed Spy,
Easy Going,
Ornette Coleman,
Tubeway Army,
Nils Olav,
Tres Demented,
Isaac Hayes,
In Retrospect,
Shoche,
John Foxx,
Cal Tjader,
Tom Boy,
These Immortal Souls,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soul II Soul,
Angry Samoans,
Eve St. Jones,
The Mojo Men,
Sun City Girls,
Model 500,
The Fall,
The Vogues,
ABC,
Andrew Hill,
Donald Byrd,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Yazoo,
Steve Hackett,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Red Krayola,
The Slits,
Gabor Szabo,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ten City,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Soulsonic Force,
Altered Images,
The Moody Blues,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Basic Channel,
The Dirtbombs,
Fela Kuti,
kango's stein massive,
The Sonics,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Amon Düül,
The Cowsills,
Ituana, Ituana, Ituana, Ituana.
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.