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 Spain and from Shanghai.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Second Layer 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 New York Dolls. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sexual Harrassment record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed & Metallica record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
Kevin Saunderson,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Supertramp,
Terry Callier,
The Count Five,
Gregory Isaacs,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Procol Harum,
Henry Cow,
Agitation Free,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Durutti Column,
Isaac Hayes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Jandek,
The Pop Group,
Slick Rick,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Laurel Aitken,
K-Klass,
The Standells,
Second Layer,
The Gun Club,
Bobby Hutcherson,
B.T. Express,
Ludus,
Silicon Teens,
Tommy Roe,
Bootsy Collins,
The Blackbyrds,
Porter Ricks,
Gang Green,
The Golliwogs,
Girls At Our Best!,
Donny Hathaway,
Section 25,
The Fall,
ABBA,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fugazi,
Agent Orange,
The Busters,
Thompson Twins,
X-102,
The Slackers,
The Flesh Eaters,
Rosa Yemen,
Interpol,
Excepter,
Leonard Cohen,
Slave,
Johnny Clarke,
Easy Going,
Suicide,
Bush Tetras,
David Axelrod,
The Sound,
Dawn Penn,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Fire Engines,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
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.