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 Saudi Arabia and from Salvador.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare 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 Stiv Bators to the grunge 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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dawn Penn record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
ABC,
Country Teasers,
Matthew Bourne,
Bob Dylan,
Marine Girls,
Barrington Levy,
Q65,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kurtis Blow,
E-Dancer,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joensuu 1685,
Ohio Players,
Beasts of Bourbon,
the Human League,
Andrew Hill,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lalann,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Erasure,
Gil Scott Heron,
Grauzone,
Saccharine Trust,
Boredoms,
The Gap Band,
The Five Americans,
Technova,
Radiopuhelimet,
David McCallum,
Bad Manners,
Simply Red,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sixth Finger,
The Pop Group,
Peter and Kerry,
Pet Shop Boys,
Fela Kuti,
The Raincoats,
The Leaves,
Cluster,
The Alarm Clocks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Eden Ahbez,
Loose Ends,
John Coltrane,
Amazonics,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Barracudas,
Roy Ayers,
The Move,
Lakeside,
Zero Boys,
Minor Threat,
Von Mondo,
Boz Scaggs,
Harmonia,
Average White Band,
Metal Thangz,
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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.