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 Hungary and from Stockholm.
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 Paris and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All Girls At Our Best! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a These Immortal Souls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Y Pants,
Jeff Lynne,
Easy Going,
Jawbox,
Desert Stars,
Junior Murvin,
Neu!,
Wings,
Royal Trux,
Yellowson,
Simply Red,
T.S.O.L.,
Sight & Sound,
U.S. Maple,
Magma,
Tommy Roe,
The Gap Band,
The Count Five,
Heaven 17,
The Electric Prunes,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Terry Callier,
Josef K,
The Invisible,
Alison Limerick,
Boz Scaggs,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Derrick May,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Fear,
Nick Fraelich,
ABC,
The Fire Engines,
Glenn Branca,
Maleditus Sound,
Gregory Isaacs,
Max Romeo,
Crime,
Bush Tetras,
Scrapy,
Soulsonic Force,
Sexual Harrassment,
Delon & Dalcan,
Infiniti,
Cheater Slicks,
The Motions,
The J.B.'s,
The Slackers,
Magazine,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
B.T. Express,
Sun Ra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Anakelly,
Fela Kuti,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ludus,
Bronski Beat,
Black Bananas,
Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape.
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.