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 Gambia and from Taipei.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Invisible to the electroclash 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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June of 44 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Althea and Donna,
Severed Heads,
Roxy Music,
The Misunderstood,
Robert Wyatt,
Boz Scaggs,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Morten Harket,
Letta Mbulu,
The Detroit Cobras,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Pus,
Minutemen,
Todd Rundgren,
Echospace,
The Vogues,
Freddie Wadling,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fad Gadget,
the Bar-Kays,
Colin Newman,
Aswad,
Intrusion,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Black Moon,
Sonic Youth,
The Victims,
Charles Mingus,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Arab on Radar,
The Buckinghams,
Amon Düül,
Barbara Tucker,
Anakelly,
Sex Pistols,
Prince Buster,
Hot Snakes,
Ohio Players,
Accadde A,
Graham Central Station,
Franke,
Suburban Knight,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bush Tetras,
Derrick Morgan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Cure,
Supertramp,
The Smiths,
Eli Mardock,
Lalann,
This Heat,
E-Dancer,
AZ,
F. McDonald,
Interpol,
Kerrie Biddell,
Brothers Johnson,
Susan Cadogan,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.