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 Malaysia and from Copenhagen.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Oneida to the techno 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 The Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All Harry Pussy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Almond record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Surgeon,
Black Bananas,
Johnny Clarke,
Dawn Penn,
Skarface,
Lindisfarne,
Jandek,
Jeff Lynne,
Monks,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pere Ubu,
Infiniti,
Arab on Radar,
Blossom Toes,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Henry Cow,
The Grass Roots,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Crooked Eye,
Jerry's Kids,
the Bar-Kays,
John Foxx,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Echospace,
Arthur Verocai,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Gil Scott Heron,
Nik Kershaw,
Essential Logic,
Ponytail,
Au Pairs,
Mary Jane Girls,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rufus Thomas,
Derrick May,
Gong,
Idris Muhammad,
Jacques Brel,
Ultimate Spinach,
Kevin Saunderson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Fire Engines,
Freddie Wadling,
Joensuu 1685,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bob Dylan,
Roy Ayers,
Deakin,
The Beau Brummels,
Rotary Connection,
Gastr Del Sol,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
T. Rex,
Niagra,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Heaven 17,
Thee Headcoats,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.