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 Kuwait and from Hong Kong.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Althea and Donna,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Tom Boy,
Technova,
Rites of Spring,
the Bar-Kays,
The Standells,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
T. Rex,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bobby Womack,
The Grass Roots,
Yellowson,
The Misunderstood,
Lee Hazlewood,
Oneida,
Yazoo,
Fatback Band,
Urselle,
Ornette Coleman,
Graham Central Station,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Fall,
Jimmy McGriff,
Alton Ellis,
Underground Resistance,
Amon Düül II,
Kerri Chandler,
Minny Pops,
Gichy Dan,
Deadbeat,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Skatalites,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kurtis Blow,
Unwound,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Oblivians,
Lou Christie,
Black Moon,
Index,
The Litter,
David McCallum,
10cc,
The Neon Judgement,
Glambeats Corp.,
In Retrospect,
Public Image Ltd.,
Albert Ayler,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Soft Machine,
Jandek,
Zapp,
The Fuzztones,
The Martian,
Eve St. Jones,
The Sound,
Pulsallama,
Henry Cow,
The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground.
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.