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 Colombia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 rhodes 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 Sam Rivers to the techno 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 Howard Jones. All the underground hits.
All Young Marble Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wally Richardson 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Swans,
Fad Gadget,
The Leaves,
The Doobie Brothers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Misunderstood,
Erykah Badu,
Zapp,
the Bar-Kays,
The Smiths,
Rekid,
Janne Schatter,
Leonard Cohen,
Josef K,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Von Mondo,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The American Breed,
Derrick Morgan,
Parry Music,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Henry Cow,
Mad Mike,
Peter and Kerry,
The Moleskins,
Judy Mowatt,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Patti Smith,
Peter & Gordon,
Gong,
the Sonics,
Cheater Slicks,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gil Scott Heron,
Qualms,
Kurtis Blow,
Nick Fraelich,
Yellowson,
The Seeds,
Piero Umiliani,
Lightning Bolt,
The Fire Engines,
Panda Bear,
Wolf Eyes,
Deakin,
Icehouse,
Stiv Bators,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
World's Most,
Ronan,
Stetsasonic,
Quando Quango,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Alton Ellis,
10cc,
Camouflage,
Althea and Donna,
Scrapy,
Ten City,
Erasure,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.