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 Djibouti and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Yellowson to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gian Franco Pienzio. All the underground hits.
All Major Organ And The Adding Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Sam Rivers,
Massinfluence,
Mantronix,
Avey Tare,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eli Mardock,
Johnny Clarke,
Peter & Gordon,
the Sonics,
The Human League,
The Birthday Party,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Wolf Eyes,
Matthew Halsall,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rod Modell,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
David Axelrod,
Brick,
The Sound,
Yusef Lateef,
Qualms,
Porter Ricks,
Marvin Gaye,
Au Pairs,
Gerry Rafferty,
the Bar-Kays,
The Remains,
The Real Kids,
Gang Starr,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pharoah Sanders,
Khruangbin,
the Normal,
Joe Finger,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bob Dylan,
John Coltrane,
the Slits,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Soul II Soul,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Chris Corsano,
Joe Smooth,
Amon Düül II,
Cymande,
Desert Stars,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
One Last Wish,
Rekid,
The Shadows of Knight,
Jeff Lynne,
Tim Buckley,
Kas Product,
Barrington Levy,
Leonard Cohen,
Eric B and Rakim,
Simply Red,
Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound.
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.