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 Netherlands 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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kerri Chandler 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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a PIL record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
Sam Rivers,
Theoretical Girls,
The Busters,
Ten City,
David McCallum,
Gichy Dan,
Grey Daturas,
The Walker Brothers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Dave Gahan,
Jerry's Kids,
Excepter,
The Gories,
Public Image Ltd.,
X-Ray Spex,
Audionom,
Ornette Coleman,
The Slackers,
Fluxion,
Drexciya,
Alphaville,
Sun City Girls,
D'Angelo,
Groovy Waters,
Michelle Simonal,
The Blackbyrds,
Robert Görl,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Yusef Lateef,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Derrick May,
The Pretty Things,
Jeff Lynne,
The Cramps,
The Real Kids,
the Human League,
Black Pus,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Neon Judgement,
Matthew Bourne,
Eli Mardock,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Radiopuhelimet,
Chris Corsano,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kenny Larkin,
Sonny Sharrock,
ABBA,
Nico,
Pantaleimon,
Henry Cow,
Barrington Levy,
The Wake,
Vladislav Delay,
Average White Band,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Hasil Adkins,
Roxy Music,
Kerrie Biddell,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.