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 Mexico and from New York.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Animal Collective to the disco 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 Gang Gang Dance. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Susan Cadogan,
Lee Hazlewood,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
cv313,
8 Eyed Spy,
Connie Case,
Intrusion,
Hardrive,
Brass Construction,
Suburban Knight,
Nick Fraelich,
The Moody Blues,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Icehouse,
Graham Central Station,
Minny Pops,
Stiv Bators,
Dorothy Ashby,
H. Thieme,
Bad Manners,
Big Daddy Kane,
Amazonics,
The Fall,
Bluetip,
Morten Harket,
Idris Muhammad,
Skarface,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
T. Rex,
Maleditus Sound,
Davy DMX,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Yellowson,
The Red Krayola,
Funky Four + One,
Mission of Burma,
Saccharine Trust,
Donald Byrd,
The Durutti Column,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mars,
Bobby Sherman,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ultra Naté,
Liliput,
Jandek,
Stetsasonic,
Black Flag,
Black Moon,
Prince Buster,
Fifty Foot Hose,
MDC,
Blancmange,
Robert Wyatt,
Sonny Sharrock,
Marvin Gaye,
Gang Gang Dance,
Flipper,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.