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 Peru and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 harpsichord 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 Bad Manners to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Fat Boys,
Monolake,
Neil Young,
Scientists,
Sun Ra,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Symarip,
Lou Christie,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Todd Rundgren,
Mark Hollis,
The Smiths,
Second Layer,
The Fugs,
Crash Course in Science,
Boz Scaggs,
Ten City,
OOIOO,
The Sound,
Aswad,
Quando Quango,
Warren Ellis,
David Axelrod,
Sun City Girls,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Black Pus,
The Martian,
Pantaleimon,
Marc Almond,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Arcadia,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Misunderstood,
Minutemen,
The Busters,
The Grass Roots,
Gang Green,
Panda Bear,
Half Japanese,
Arthur Verocai,
CMW,
Nik Kershaw,
John Foxx,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Victims,
Japan,
Ultimate Spinach,
Metal Thangz,
One Last Wish,
Eddi Front,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
DNA,
Model 500,
DJ Sneak,
Swans,
Sixth Finger,
Nico,
Deepchord,
Althea and Donna,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.