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 Tanzania and from Seoul.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jeff Lynne to the punk 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 The Raincoats. All the underground hits.
All Sällskapet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deadbeat 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronnie Foster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
The Techniques,
Terry Callier,
Aswad,
The Gun Club,
Gastr Del Sol,
Mr. Review,
Scion,
Main Source,
The Star Department,
The Toasters,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Oblivians,
Ten City,
The Victims,
The Associates,
The Count Five,
Eddi Front,
The Fall,
Jandek,
Fela Kuti,
Ornette Coleman,
Masters at Work,
the Fania All-Stars,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Dual Sessions,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Das Ding,
Lower 48,
Pagans,
The Cowsills,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sparks,
K-Klass,
Reuben Wilson,
Bizarre Inc.,
Suburban Knight,
The Human League,
Laurel Aitken,
Fat Boys,
Howard Jones,
Liliput,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bill Wells,
Suicide,
Monolake,
Wasted Youth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
David Axelrod,
The Offenders,
This Heat,
Piero Umiliani,
Jerry Gold Smith,
DJ Sneak,
Patti Smith,
Grandmaster Flash,
Warren Ellis,
The Index,
The Alarm Clocks,
Circle Jerks,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.