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 Solomon Islands and from Milan.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Lou Reed 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 The Stooges to the rock 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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a a-ha record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantytec,
Nation of Ulysses,
Connie Case,
AZ,
Fad Gadget,
DJ Sneak,
The Human League,
Curtis Mayfield,
Amon Düül II,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Oneida,
Aloha Tigers,
The Barracudas,
Soft Machine,
Youth Brigade,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Vogues,
Rapeman,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Zero Boys,
Absolute Body Control,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Blancmange,
The Walker Brothers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Steve Hackett,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Hasil Adkins,
Lakeside,
Jandek,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bauhaus,
Toni Rubio,
Agitation Free,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Names,
Anakelly,
Quantec,
Infiniti,
Sex Pistols,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kayak,
The Real Kids,
the Association,
Tres Demented,
Japan,
Moby Grape,
Pulsallama,
U.S. Maple,
Sam Rivers,
Erykah Badu,
Idris Muhammad,
CMW,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Godley & Creme,
Country Teasers,
Ultra Naté,
Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith.
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.