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 Georgia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Mo-Dettes to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The American Breed,
Alton Ellis,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ralphi Rosario,
Wings,
Crooked Eye,
The Barracudas,
The Kinks,
Wally Richardson,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Human League,
These Immortal Souls,
Pylon,
Ituana,
Warsaw,
Jacob Miller,
The Tremeloes,
Marcia Griffiths,
Freddie Wadling,
Soulsonic Force,
Kayak,
Chris & Cosey,
KRS-One,
Ice-T,
Stetsasonic,
Isaac Hayes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Monks,
The Pop Group,
Harpers Bizarre,
Thee Headcoats,
June of 44,
Eurythmics,
Gang of Four,
The Fuzztones,
Wasted Youth,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Seeds,
Jeff Mills,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Magma,
Jawbox,
Sun Ra,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Lyres,
Eric Dolphy,
Chris Corsano,
the Association,
Sound Behaviour,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Deakin,
Fatback Band,
Marc Almond,
Spoonie Gee,
The Misunderstood,
Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum.
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.