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 St Lucia and from Columbus.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Charles Mingus to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Birthday Party 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
David McCallum,
Yaz,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Radio Birdman,
Ronnie Foster,
Youth Brigade,
Man Eating Sloth,
Adolescents,
Oblivians,
Zero Boys,
Section 25,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Siglo XX,
Tommy Roe,
Oneida,
Susan Cadogan,
Leonard Cohen,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ossler,
Sam Rivers,
Grey Daturas,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Talk Talk,
Harmonia,
Joey Negro,
Alice Coltrane,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Skatalites,
Soft Machine,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Cheater Slicks,
The Neon Judgement,
Tubeway Army,
Neu!,
New Order,
The Tremeloes,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Blake Baxter,
Skriet,
Jawbox,
Mantronix,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Magma,
Circle Jerks,
Von Mondo,
T. Rex,
Make Up,
Erykah Badu,
Smog,
Bill Wells,
The Cowsills,
Matthew Halsall,
Eddi Front,
Aloha Tigers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.