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 Vietnam and from Manchester.
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 Toronto and Copenhagen.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Rod Modell to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ralphi Rosario record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Grass Roots record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Davy DMX,
Lakeside,
Hardrive,
K-Klass,
Gong,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Black Moon,
Blake Baxter,
Nik Kershaw,
Procol Harum,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Unwound,
Morten Harket,
Lower 48,
Neu!,
Ultimate Spinach,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Tropical Tobacco,
Negative Approach,
The Slits,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Dennis Brown,
Country Teasers,
The Associates,
Aloha Tigers,
Crime,
One Last Wish,
La Düsseldorf,
Skaos,
Charles Mingus,
World's Most,
Sällskapet,
Johnny Osbourne,
10cc,
Soulsonic Force,
Donald Byrd,
Mars,
The Fire Engines,
Japan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cybotron,
The Dave Clark Five,
Eddi Front,
Symarip,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Slits,
The Last Poets,
the Swans,
The Techniques,
Arab on Radar,
Fugazi,
Terrestrial Tones,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Aswad,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sound Behaviour,
Alison Limerick,
Soft Machine,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis.
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.