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 Sri Lanka and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the grime 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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ponytail,
The Mummies,
Spandau Ballet,
Kenny Larkin,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Arab on Radar,
Gang Green,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Idris Muhammad,
The Fall,
Susan Cadogan,
Tres Demented,
Eric B and Rakim,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Smoke,
The Associates,
Blake Baxter,
the Soft Cell,
Ohio Players,
Pantaleimon,
Jeff Lynne,
Howard Jones,
Grauzone,
Supertramp,
Bobby Womack,
Johnny Clarke,
The Beau Brummels,
The Durutti Column,
The Skatalites,
Skaos,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Dirtbombs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Man Eating Sloth,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mo-Dettes,
Pet Shop Boys,
the Swans,
L. Decosne,
Main Source,
Second Layer,
Erykah Badu,
Dark Day,
Tears for Fears,
Ludus,
Bush Tetras,
Banda Bassotti,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
X-Ray Spex,
Bill Wells,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Deadbeat,
Bizarre Inc.,
K-Klass,
Kaleidoscope,
Kas Product,
Albert Ayler,
Archie Shepp,
The Dead C,
Y Pants,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
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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.