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 Liberia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Cheater Slicks to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe 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?
This Heat,
Laurel Aitken,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gastr Del Sol,
Livin' Joy,
The United States of America,
Bob Dylan,
The Names,
Slick Rick,
Theoretical Girls,
MC5,
The Misunderstood,
The Knickerbockers,
Kaleidoscope,
Niagra,
Brass Construction,
Marmalade,
Silicon Teens,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Duran Duran,
David McCallum,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ice-T,
Mr. Review,
The Angels of Light,
Byron Stingily,
One Last Wish,
Babytalk,
Urselle,
Porter Ricks,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Davy DMX,
Eddi Front,
the Germs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Stooges,
Hot Snakes,
10cc,
Pole,
Joyce Sims,
The Seeds,
Deakin,
Lou Christie,
Stetsasonic,
The Moody Blues,
Flash Fearless,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Archie Shepp,
Wings,
The Gap Band,
Juan Atkins,
The Young Rascals,
The Dirtbombs,
Ituana,
Kayak,
Icehouse,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Cure,
Smog,
Scion, Scion, Scion, Scion.
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.