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 Malawi and from Halifax.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 ABC to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Terry Callier. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sam Rivers,
Kenny Larkin,
Bootsy Collins,
Franke,
the Slits,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Subhumans,
ABC,
La Düsseldorf,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Qualms,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Oblivians,
Boredoms,
The Slits,
This Heat,
Jeff Lynne,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Human League,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ludus,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Mojo Men,
Albert Ayler,
Pagans,
Leonard Cohen,
Neu!,
Dead Boys,
Bang On A Can,
Don Cherry,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Real Kids,
David Bowie,
Japan,
One Last Wish,
Erykah Badu,
Theoretical Girls,
X-Ray Spex,
Easy Going,
Black Flag,
Lightning Bolt,
Moss Icon,
The Young Rascals,
UT,
Eve St. Jones,
Brand Nubian,
The Dirtbombs,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Amon Düül II,
The Cowsills,
Bluetip,
Skriet,
Banda Bassotti,
Technova,
Camberwell Now,
Mars,
Ken Boothe,
The Mummies,
Ronnie Foster,
The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy.
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.