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 Libya and from Spokane.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Gong to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Graham Central Station. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Boz Scaggs,
Jeff Lynne,
Mark Hollis,
Wally Richardson,
Black Bananas,
The American Breed,
Nils Olav,
The Fire Engines,
Patti Smith,
Bobby Byrd,
The Count Five,
Sun Ra,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Black Flag,
Tubeway Army,
World's Most,
Lebanon Hanover,
Das Ding,
Pantaleimon,
Donny Hathaway,
Crooked Eye,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Terrestrial Tones,
T.S.O.L.,
Swans,
Zero Boys,
The Zeros,
Cameo,
Chris Corsano,
Cecil Taylor,
The Saints,
The Offenders,
Section 25,
Wolf Eyes,
Drexciya,
The Motions,
Organ,
Funky Four + One,
The Monochrome Set,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Accadde A,
The Pretty Things,
Amazonics,
The Seeds,
The Red Krayola,
The Durutti Column,
Unwound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bronski Beat,
R.M.O.,
Procol Harum,
Zapp,
The J.B.'s,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Josef K,
The Stooges,
Cymande,
The Index, The Index, The Index, The Index.
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.