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 Panama and from Stockholm.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Cairo.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Fluxion to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Judy Mowatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Stooges record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Lalann,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Slits,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Roxette,
Outsiders,
Alphaville,
Mary Jane Girls,
K-Klass,
Pulsallama,
The Zeros,
Arab on Radar,
Charles Mingus,
Arthur Verocai,
Pylon,
Mantronix,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Velvet Underground,
The Birthday Party,
Joyce Sims,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Oneida,
EPMD,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Music Machine,
Sun Ra,
Albert Ayler,
Franke,
Robert Görl,
Soulsonic Force,
Steve Hackett,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Smiths,
The Monochrome Set,
Chris & Cosey,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
David McCallum,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bill Near,
The Victims,
Schoolly D,
Pierre Henry,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ituana,
Flamin' Groovies,
Absolute Body Control,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sister Nancy,
Alison Limerick,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Laurel Aitken,
The Detroit Cobras,
Minnie Riperton,
These Immortal Souls,
John Lydon,
Dennis Brown,
cv313,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas.
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.