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 Qatar and from Delhi.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Niagra to the dance 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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All Accadde A tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's 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 organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joe Finger,
Delta 5,
Anakelly,
Amon Düül,
Funkadelic,
Charles Mingus,
The Residents,
Andrew Hill,
Joy Division,
Frankie Knuckles,
Piero Umiliani,
Quantec,
Archie Shepp,
The Kinks,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Zeros,
Dawn Penn,
Crispy Ambulance,
Banda Bassotti,
Erykah Badu,
Jerry's Kids,
Chris & Cosey,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Wolf Eyes,
Bush Tetras,
Alphaville,
Hasil Adkins,
Yellowson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Wally Richardson,
Johnny Osbourne,
A Certain Ratio,
Urselle,
10cc,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Eddi Front,
John Foxx,
Funky Four + One,
Japan,
Ohio Players,
Black Pus,
Ten City,
T.S.O.L.,
Yaz,
Scratch Acid,
The Young Rascals,
Symarip,
Sixth Finger,
Isaac Hayes,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Blues Magoos,
Jeff Lynne,
Rekid,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Quadrant,
Amazonics,
Index,
Duran Duran,
The Victims,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.