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 Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bremen.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 CMW to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sly & The Family Stone. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres 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?
Grandmaster Flash,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Althea and Donna,
Junior Murvin,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Quadrant,
Banda Bassotti,
the Germs,
Icehouse,
Rotary Connection,
Malaria!,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Blancmange,
Bob Dylan,
Kenny Larkin,
Max Romeo,
Spandau Ballet,
10cc,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Matthew Halsall,
The Zeros,
The Monks,
Ice-T,
Sandy B,
Spoonie Gee,
Deakin,
Avey Tare,
the Swans,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
kango's stein massive,
Average White Band,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
LL Cool J,
Laurel Aitken,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Audionom,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Busters,
The Pretty Things,
Lalann,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Slick Rick,
Franke,
Soft Cell,
Sight & Sound,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jacques Brel,
Neil Young,
U.S. Maple,
Bang On A Can,
E-Dancer,
Liliput,
Harpers Bizarre,
Masters at Work,
Trumans Water,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.