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 Luxembourg and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 FM Einheit to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every These Immortal Souls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Severed Heads record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Max Romeo,
Pere Ubu,
Whodini,
Sister Nancy,
Tears for Fears,
The Evens,
Albert Ayler,
Morten Harket,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Unwound,
Young Marble Giants,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Groovy Waters,
Lindisfarne,
Deadbeat,
John Cale,
Funky Four + One,
Minutemen,
China Crisis,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Technova,
Soul Sonic Force,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Excepter,
Q and Not U,
The Golliwogs,
D'Angelo,
Little Man,
Soft Cell,
The Names,
Underground Resistance,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sam Rivers,
Bobby Byrd,
Saccharine Trust,
The Blues Magoos,
Half Japanese,
Royal Trux,
Joe Finger,
Dual Sessions,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Sound,
Metal Thangz,
Delta 5,
Yazoo,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Marine Girls,
Henry Cow,
Brothers Johnson,
Mandrill,
Rod Modell,
Intrusion,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Gories,
Urselle,
Barclay James Harvest,
Susan Cadogan,
The Remains,
Vainqueur,
Sun Ra,
Echospace,
Aural Exciters,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.