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 Zimbabwe and from Manila.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Barbara Tucker to the grunge 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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All David Bowie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dawn Penn record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultra Naté,
Kaleidoscope,
Babytalk,
Danielle Patucci,
Crispian St. Peters,
Iggy Pop,
Fad Gadget,
Boz Scaggs,
The Red Krayola,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rites of Spring,
Sex Pistols,
Hashim,
the Germs,
Erasure,
Liliput,
Au Pairs,
Lakeside,
Barclay James Harvest,
Moss Icon,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Faust,
Reagan Youth,
Television,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pagans,
K-Klass,
Tom Boy,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Offenders,
Mars,
The Vogues,
Lindisfarne,
Dead Boys,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eve St. Jones,
Yellowson,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gichy Dan,
Joensuu 1685,
Duran Duran,
The Sound,
The Techniques,
the Association,
Lyres,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sound Behaviour,
Jandek,
Agitation Free,
Cecil Taylor,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lucky Dragons,
Joyce Sims,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Loose Ends,
the Soft Cell,
David Bowie,
Piero Umiliani,
the Slits,
Moby Grape,
Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül.
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.