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 Grenada and from Taipei.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Robert Hood to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Model 500 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
FM Einheit,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Livin' Joy,
Bobby Byrd,
Eric Copeland,
Ultravox,
EPMD,
The Birthday Party,
Thompson Twins,
James White and The Blacks,
U.S. Maple,
The Stooges,
Juan Atkins,
Basic Channel,
Lakeside,
Pylon,
Derrick May,
The Beau Brummels,
The Moleskins,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Aaron Thompson,
Maurizio,
Eyeless In Gaza,
La Düsseldorf,
Subhumans,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ituana,
Blossom Toes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Camouflage,
Sugar Minott,
Flamin' Groovies,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
UT,
Minny Pops,
Man Parrish,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Searchers,
DJ Sneak,
Outsiders,
Kurtis Blow,
Joey Negro,
The Invisible,
Tim Buckley,
Sixth Finger,
Babytalk,
Sound Behaviour,
Funkadelic,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Procol Harum,
Aloha Tigers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
Howard Jones,
Drive Like Jehu,
Soul II Soul,
Banda Bassotti,
Lee Hazlewood,
Suicide,
One Last Wish,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.