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 Andorra and from Sao Paulo.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and London.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 These Immortal Souls to the disco 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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every D'Angelo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Cell,
Marine Girls,
The Vogues,
The Electric Prunes,
The Dave Clark Five,
L. Decosne,
Iggy Pop,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Monochrome Set,
Camberwell Now,
Rekid,
Cameo,
Radio Birdman,
Agent Orange,
Bobby Womack,
The Five Americans,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Maurizio,
Letta Mbulu,
D'Angelo,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gang of Four,
Pantaleimon,
Popol Vuh,
The Knickerbockers,
Matthew Halsall,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Wolf Eyes,
The Dead C,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Residents,
Cecil Taylor,
Gregory Isaacs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Steve Hackett,
John Coltrane,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Altered Images,
The Beau Brummels,
Bronski Beat,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sister Nancy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lucky Dragons,
The New Christs,
Public Image Ltd.,
Judy Mowatt,
Loose Ends,
June of 44,
Bill Near,
R.M.O.,
Von Mondo,
New Age Steppers,
LL Cool J,
Crime,
Delta 5,
The Raincoats,
Joyce Sims,
Ronan,
Nirvana,
Average White Band,
Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans.
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.