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 Gabon and from Spokane.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the oboe 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 Lalann to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Blackbyrds. All the underground hits.
All Lindisfarne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Steve Hackett,
Judy Mowatt,
The Human League,
The Dave Clark Five,
Junior Murvin,
Ossler,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Dirtbombs,
X-101,
Tears for Fears,
Rekid,
Excepter,
Jacques Brel,
Arthur Verocai,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Loose Ends,
Fatback Band,
The Doobie Brothers,
Adolescents,
The Walker Brothers,
Albert Ayler,
Marine Girls,
Ten City,
Johnny Osbourne,
Glenn Branca,
Dawn Penn,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bauhaus,
Don Cherry,
Crooked Eye,
The Durutti Column,
Moss Icon,
Ultravox,
Bang On A Can,
Flash Fearless,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bizarre Inc.,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Slackers,
Banda Bassotti,
The Blues Magoos,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Tom Boy,
Thompson Twins,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Yellowson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Morten Harket,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Amon Düül II,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Patti Smith,
Mantronix,
Max Romeo,
Agitation Free,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.