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 Lithuania and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the guitar 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 The Move to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
The Monochrome Set,
Stereo Dub,
The Zeros,
The Five Americans,
Anthony Braxton,
Wasted Youth,
Crash Course in Science,
The Real Kids,
Dark Day,
Eve St. Jones,
Camouflage,
Aural Exciters,
Bronski Beat,
Chris Corsano,
Jeff Lynne,
Technova,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ice-T,
The Cure,
Alphaville,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pantytec,
R.M.O.,
Main Source,
T.S.O.L.,
The Leaves,
Mary Jane Girls,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Drive Like Jehu,
Amon Düül,
Grauzone,
Patti Smith,
Easy Going,
Electric Prunes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Liliput,
Clear Light,
Pantaleimon,
China Crisis,
Altered Images,
Lightning Bolt,
The Gun Club,
Scion,
Al Stewart,
Loose Ends,
Pagans,
Infiniti,
Ohio Players,
Urselle,
Robert Görl,
the Bar-Kays,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rosa Yemen,
The Victims,
Ralphi Rosario,
Aswad,
Yellowson,
Pylon,
The Vogues,
Gerry Rafferty,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.