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 Ethiopia and from Bologna.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Glasgow.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lower 48 to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chrome record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Durutti Column,
Clear Light,
a-ha,
Nico,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Erasure,
Warren Ellis,
The Toasters,
Chris & Cosey,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Neil Young,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Fugs,
Eddi Front,
The Gun Club,
Unwound,
Little Man,
Ken Boothe,
Gang Green,
Wasted Youth,
Jacob Miller,
Ossler,
The Blackbyrds,
Siglo XX,
Barry Ungar,
Bobby Sherman,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lindisfarne,
Amon Düül II,
The Pop Group,
Eric Dolphy,
ABBA,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Juan Atkins,
Byron Stingily,
The Searchers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Mummies,
Sun Ra,
Eurythmics,
Piero Umiliani,
Absolute Body Control,
10cc,
Neu!,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Alice Coltrane,
Barclay James Harvest,
Erykah Badu,
Animal Collective,
The Seeds,
Archie Shepp,
Talk Talk,
The Dirtbombs,
The Angels of Light,
The Zeros,
Mo-Dettes,
Black Moon,
Pagans,
JFA,
The Smiths,
Mission of Burma,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.