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 Haiti and from Edmonton.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 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 David Axelrod to the rock 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All The Selecter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
U.S. Maple,
Amon Düül II,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
10cc,
Lucky Dragons,
Goldenarms,
Wire,
Oblivians,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Slits,
Babytalk,
David Bowie,
CMW,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Nick Fraelich,
Mad Mike,
Soulsonic Force,
The Walker Brothers,
the Slits,
Hasil Adkins,
The Neon Judgement,
Lower 48,
Supertramp,
Letta Mbulu,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lyres,
Crooked Eye,
The Blackbyrds,
Michelle Simonal,
Franke,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Nation of Ulysses,
Absolute Body Control,
Swans,
Index,
Bill Near,
Roxette,
Tropical Tobacco,
Joey Negro,
Rod Modell,
The Saints,
Deepchord,
Peter and Kerry,
L. Decosne,
Kayak,
John Holt,
Cheater Slicks,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Yellowson,
The Motions,
Pulsallama,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Cowsills,
Half Japanese,
Idris Muhammad,
kango's stein massive,
Infiniti,
Gong,
Average White Band,
Eric B and Rakim,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.