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 Belarus and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ossler to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Severed Heads tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Art Ensemble Of Chicago record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moby Grape,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tubeway Army,
The Golliwogs,
the Fania All-Stars,
Radio Birdman,
Excepter,
Wolf Eyes,
Vainqueur,
Bootsy Collins,
Blancmange,
D'Angelo,
Warsaw,
Marmalade,
Marshall Jefferson,
Pantytec,
KRS-One,
Public Enemy,
Quadrant,
Wire,
Main Source,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Peter & Gordon,
Faraquet,
Lalo Schifrin,
Steve Hackett,
Maurizio,
Lou Reed,
Jimmy McGriff,
Hoover,
The Knickerbockers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Clear Light,
Mo-Dettes,
Hot Snakes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scan 7,
Fluxion,
The Durutti Column,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Pet Shop Boys,
Scientists,
Judy Mowatt,
The Tremeloes,
10cc,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sly & The Family Stone,
T.S.O.L.,
The Techniques,
The Cowsills,
Rotary Connection,
Barrington Levy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Glenn Branca,
Suburban Knight,
DJ Sneak,
The Monks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Slits, the Slits, the Slits, the Slits.
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.