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 Portugal and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Inner City to the funk 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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All Adolescents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eddi Front record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Absolute Body Control,
The Barracudas,
Arthur Verocai,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cybotron,
Black Moon,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ten City,
Ralphi Rosario,
Harpers Bizarre,
Animal Collective,
UT,
John Holt,
Camberwell Now,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Buckinghams,
Sarah Menescal,
Severed Heads,
The Fall,
Popol Vuh,
Scientists,
Stiv Bators,
Bobby Womack,
Robert Hood,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Fuzztones,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pantytec,
Neil Young,
The Music Machine,
Young Marble Giants,
Jesper Dahlback,
Neu!,
H. Thieme,
Technova,
The Gap Band,
Pierre Henry,
Amon Düül II,
Piero Umiliani,
The Sonics,
Gang Starr,
June of 44,
Sonny Sharrock,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lou Reed,
Monolake,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Raincoats,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Malaria!,
Danielle Patucci,
Soul Sonic Force,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Khruangbin,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bauhaus,
MC5,
Donny Hathaway,
Skaos,
The Neon Judgement,
Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart.
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.