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 Germany and from Milan.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro 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 Stiv Bators to the grunge 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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All Second Layer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Star Department record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Barclay James Harvest,
Section 25,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Young Rascals,
Steve Hackett,
Letta Mbulu,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rakim,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Monochrome Set,
Graham Central Station,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sandy B,
The Modern Lovers,
Warsaw,
Altered Images,
Moby Grape,
The Blackbyrds,
Sixth Finger,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Colin Newman,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
X-101,
Jawbox,
The Saints,
Adolescents,
Scion,
Skaos,
Neil Young,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Smiths,
Average White Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Count Five,
Marc Almond,
The Stooges,
David Bowie,
Pussy Galore,
Erykah Badu,
Flamin' Groovies,
Scan 7,
The Moleskins,
Aaron Thompson,
The Buckinghams,
The Electric Prunes,
Aloha Tigers,
Tres Demented,
The Toasters,
The Black Dice,
The Flesh Eaters,
June Days,
Archie Shepp,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rekid,
Ronnie Foster,
Bad Manners,
T.S.O.L.,
Drive Like Jehu,
E-Dancer,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.