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 Czech Republic and from Shanghai.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Edmonton.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar 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 Laurel Aitken to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Letta Mbulu,
Supertramp,
Lalo Schifrin,
Grey Daturas,
Fear,
John Foxx,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bill Wells,
Judy Mowatt,
Brick,
Marc Almond,
Joy Division,
Delta 5,
Average White Band,
Tears for Fears,
Sun Ra,
Slave,
Bill Near,
Ken Boothe,
Second Layer,
Roxy Music,
Model 500,
New Order,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Golliwogs,
The Buckinghams,
Cheater Slicks,
The Wake,
The Velvet Underground,
EPMD,
H. Thieme,
Newcleus,
Sam Rivers,
Schoolly D,
Black Bananas,
Howard Jones,
Los Fastidios,
Ralphi Rosario,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Offenders,
The Leaves,
Gong,
Hashim,
Youth Brigade,
The Pop Group,
Little Man,
48th St. Collective,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
ABC,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Grauzone,
Archie Shepp,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Minny Pops,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Quadrant,
Alison Limerick,
Pantaleimon,
Suicide,
Franke,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.