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 Brunei and from Copenhagen.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Holger Czukay 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 Aloha Tigers to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Cymande. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Birthday Party 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 oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
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,
Minutemen,
Robert Görl,
Sexual Harrassment,
Rhythm & Sound,
Peter and Kerry,
Loose Ends,
The Moody Blues,
Bobby Byrd,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bootsy Collins,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fluxion,
Rufus Thomas,
Man Parrish,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Reagan Youth,
Grandmaster Flash,
Theoretical Girls,
Skarface,
Massinfluence,
Pulsallama,
Carl Craig,
Kool Moe Dee,
Eric Copeland,
Harmonia,
The Mummies,
New Order,
Archie Shepp,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Trumans Water,
Minor Threat,
Idris Muhammad,
Jesper Dahlback,
Nik Kershaw,
Groovy Waters,
Ronan,
a-ha,
X-Ray Spex,
Niagra,
Rakim,
Joy Division,
The Selecter,
Jacques Brel,
MC5,
The Gladiators,
Warren Ellis,
Silicon Teens,
Sixth Finger,
Bad Manners,
Barclay James Harvest,
Boogie Down Productions,
Morten Harket,
David McCallum,
The Slits,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
John Cale,
10cc,
John Foxx,
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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.