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 Turkey and from Manchester.
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 Columbus and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Roger Hodgson to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Loose Ends. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minutemen,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Monolake,
the Germs,
The Count Five,
The Velvet Underground,
The Shadows of Knight,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Idris Muhammad,
Maleditus Sound,
Dave Gahan,
Gregory Isaacs,
Iggy Pop,
Con Funk Shun,
Agitation Free,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bluetip,
Barbara Tucker,
Johnny Clarke,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Roxy Music,
Q and Not U,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Brass Construction,
Von Mondo,
Depeche Mode,
Tim Buckley,
Fatback Band,
Eden Ahbez,
Trumans Water,
Joy Division,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Raincoats,
Godley & Creme,
Aloha Tigers,
Warren Ellis,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Blackbyrds,
the Soft Cell,
Lalann,
Aswad,
Schoolly D,
Cybotron,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bang On A Can,
the Slits,
Rotary Connection,
K-Klass,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ponytail,
Model 500,
The Electric Prunes,
Curtis Mayfield,
8 Eyed Spy,
Janne Schatter,
MC5,
Duran Duran,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Flamin' Groovies,
Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon.
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.