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 Panama and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 Copenhagen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 guitar 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 Main Source to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Knickerbockers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Doors,
Al Stewart,
the Association,
Kenny Larkin,
Charles Mingus,
Gerry Rafferty,
Junior Murvin,
The Remains,
Kerrie Biddell,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bad Manners,
Dorothy Ashby,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Marvin Gaye,
Section 25,
Roxy Music,
Jimmy McGriff,
Guru Guru,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Silicon Teens,
Stiv Bators,
Leonard Cohen,
Kerri Chandler,
The Angels of Light,
The Raincoats,
Agitation Free,
Sound Behaviour,
Rufus Thomas,
Can,
Ornette Coleman,
Soul II Soul,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
MC5,
The Moleskins,
Fluxion,
The Invisible,
Slick Rick,
John Foxx,
Gabor Szabo,
A Certain Ratio,
Dawn Penn,
Niagra,
Flipper,
Stetsasonic,
X-102,
Skaos,
Iggy Pop,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gang of Four,
Clear Light,
Severed Heads,
Eli Mardock,
KRS-One,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lucky Dragons,
Mo-Dettes,
Erasure,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yaz,
Tomorrow,
Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17.
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.