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 Greece and from Calgary.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Kenny Larkin to the techno 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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Walker Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Pop Group,
Soft Machine,
Model 500,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Visage,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Gladiators,
Nico,
The Associates,
CMW,
Johnny Clarke,
Terrestrial Tones,
Scrapy,
The Electric Prunes,
Los Fastidios,
Soulsonic Force,
John Lydon,
Nils Olav,
Monks,
Scion,
Ralphi Rosario,
Cybotron,
Tears for Fears,
Pole,
One Last Wish,
Neil Young,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Little Man,
Flipper,
Kas Product,
Tomorrow,
Stereo Dub,
Peter and Kerry,
Theoretical Girls,
Rapeman,
Crispian St. Peters,
Arcadia,
Anthony Braxton,
The Beau Brummels,
a-ha,
The Moleskins,
Eric Dolphy,
Lightning Bolt,
the Association,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Angels of Light,
The Doobie Brothers,
David McCallum,
Barrington Levy,
Funky Four + One,
Guru Guru,
Gregory Isaacs,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Public Enemy,
Max Romeo,
Simply Red,
Pierre Henry,
10cc,
The Saints,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.