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 El Salvador and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 güiro 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 Ossler to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Y Pants. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lee Hazlewood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eddi Front,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Alison Limerick,
Ken Boothe,
Section 25,
Jerry's Kids,
F. McDonald,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ralphi Rosario,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Flamin' Groovies,
Crooked Eye,
X-101,
Mad Mike,
Chrome,
Neu!,
Suburban Knight,
Scientists,
The Standells,
Brothers Johnson,
Swell Maps,
DJ Style,
Robert Görl,
Man Eating Sloth,
Minutemen,
Andrew Hill,
E-Dancer,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Fuzztones,
Kas Product,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Cramps,
Khruangbin,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Golliwogs,
The Angels of Light,
The Monochrome Set,
Amon Düül II,
Underground Resistance,
Desert Stars,
Absolute Body Control,
Lucky Dragons,
Schoolly D,
ABC,
Parry Music,
The Trojans,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Black Flag,
The Move,
The Techniques,
Gabor Szabo,
Scion,
cv313,
The Evens,
The Stooges,
Crash Course in Science,
Max Romeo,
Glenn Branca,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.