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 Guinea-Bissau and from London.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Easy Going to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions 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?
Neil Young,
Deakin,
Davy DMX,
Aural Exciters,
Lindisfarne,
Sällskapet,
The Neon Judgement,
Nico,
The Velvet Underground,
Hashim,
The Searchers,
Prince Buster,
Eli Mardock,
Shoche,
Buzzcocks,
Adolescents,
Slave,
Soulsonic Force,
the Slits,
Minutemen,
Q65,
Crash Course in Science,
Deadbeat,
Flamin' Groovies,
Saccharine Trust,
Donald Byrd,
Amazonics,
Danielle Patucci,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Joey Negro,
Von Mondo,
48th St. Collective,
Mars,
Godley & Creme,
The Star Department,
Aloha Tigers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Man Eating Sloth,
Freddie Wadling,
Juan Atkins,
Mandrill,
Erykah Badu,
The Flesh Eaters,
Crispian St. Peters,
Iggy Pop,
New Age Steppers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Vladislav Delay,
The Five Americans,
The Barracudas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Howard Jones,
Kaleidoscope,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Camouflage,
John Lydon,
Idris Muhammad,
Fear,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks.
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.