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 Russia 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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Peter & Gordon to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Fania All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Yusef Lateef,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Mojo Men,
Oneida,
Average White Band,
Grauzone,
Camberwell Now,
Bad Manners,
Fela Kuti,
Iggy Pop,
Barry Ungar,
The Vogues,
Funky Four + One,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Beau Brummels,
Symarip,
The Remains,
Yazoo,
Michelle Simonal,
the Normal,
Deakin,
Junior Murvin,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pylon,
The Buckinghams,
the Human League,
Marmalade,
Fat Boys,
Nico,
Barrington Levy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sarah Menescal,
The Leaves,
Hasil Adkins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Techniques,
Gabor Szabo,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ultra Naté,
Kerrie Biddell,
Siglo XX,
Animal Collective,
Das Ding,
KRS-One,
Spandau Ballet,
the Bar-Kays,
Peter & Gordon,
La Düsseldorf,
Hashim,
Jacob Miller,
The Litter,
Supertramp,
Harmonia,
Babytalk,
Crime,
Roxette,
Masters at Work,
Big Daddy Kane,
Dennis Brown,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.