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 Egypt and from Spokane.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Sällskapet to the jazz 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pulsallama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Doors,
Monolake,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Barbara Tucker,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gap Band,
Urselle,
Faust,
Jandek,
H. Thieme,
Ornette Coleman,
Spoonie Gee,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bob Dylan,
Bad Manners,
Ice-T,
The Count Five,
The Index,
Ituana,
New Order,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Smog,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Wake,
Maurizio,
Anakelly,
Pylon,
Radio Birdman,
Heaven 17,
The Happenings,
Warren Ellis,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Adolescents,
The United States of America,
China Crisis,
The Dave Clark Five,
Rekid,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Peter and Kerry,
Crispian St. Peters,
Circle Jerks,
CMW,
Schoolly D,
A Certain Ratio,
Robert Görl,
Cal Tjader,
The Slackers,
Drexciya,
Joe Smooth,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lalann,
Dave Gahan,
Camberwell Now,
Shoche,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ossler,
Theoretical Girls,
Talk Talk,
Tomorrow,
10cc,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.