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 Liberia and from Mexico City.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Johnny Osbourne to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Manfred Mann's Earth Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yusef Lateef record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Iggy Pop record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lalo Schifrin,
Ronan,
Con Funk Shun,
Rod Modell,
Rekid,
The Birthday Party,
Dawn Penn,
Hoover,
Inner City,
Derrick May,
Camberwell Now,
Procol Harum,
Audionom,
Moss Icon,
New Age Steppers,
The Modern Lovers,
The Sonics,
Wally Richardson,
Kaleidoscope,
Groovy Waters,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Aloha Tigers,
Malaria!,
The Evens,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Blackbyrds,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Livin' Joy,
Neu!,
Flipper,
Tropical Tobacco,
Smog,
Eurythmics,
Dennis Brown,
Half Japanese,
The Zeros,
Qualms,
Erykah Badu,
The Leaves,
Pylon,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Animal Collective,
Stiv Bators,
The American Breed,
Yusef Lateef,
Hardrive,
Mo-Dettes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Eddi Front,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Suicide,
Joe Finger,
Jesper Dahlback,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Durutti Column,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Todd Rundgren,
Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside.
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.