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 Madagascar and from Madrid.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
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 Zapp to the jazz 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 The Gladiators. All the underground hits.
All Metal Thangz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Desert Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Henry Cow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bush Tetras,
Animal Collective,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
the Normal,
Arcadia,
Iggy Pop,
Wally Richardson,
Soulsonic Force,
The New Christs,
Glenn Branca,
Sarah Menescal,
Stiv Bators,
The Real Kids,
Gregory Isaacs,
The J.B.'s,
Qualms,
Y Pants,
Thee Headcoats,
Gang Green,
Radiohead,
Tim Buckley,
Moebius,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Interpol,
Leonard Cohen,
Metal Thangz,
The Fuzztones,
kango's stein massive,
Duran Duran,
the Sonics,
One Last Wish,
Mo-Dettes,
Alton Ellis,
Sight & Sound,
Cluster,
Isaac Hayes,
The Birthday Party,
Scion,
Joy Division,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joey Negro,
Kas Product,
The Fugs,
Sällskapet,
David McCallum,
Ludus,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Pantaleimon,
Reagan Youth,
Theoretical Girls,
Television,
Maleditus Sound,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Absolute Body Control,
Crash Course in Science,
UT,
Joensuu 1685,
The Divine Comedy,
Scientists,
Colin Newman,
Depeche Mode,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx.
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.