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 Estonia and from Milan.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Scientists to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sixth Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masters at Work,
Kaleidoscope,
Matthew Halsall,
The Trojans,
Index,
Au Pairs,
Joe Finger,
The Modern Lovers,
Soulsonic Force,
Gastr Del Sol,
Arthur Verocai,
The Raincoats,
T.S.O.L.,
JFA,
Q and Not U,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Delon & Dalcan,
Talk Talk,
The Smiths,
Minnie Riperton,
Peter and Kerry,
MC5,
Amon Düül II,
Arab on Radar,
Nils Olav,
Accadde A,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Essential Logic,
Bronski Beat,
Throbbing Gristle,
Scientists,
X-102,
The Tremeloes,
Scrapy,
Kayak,
The Golliwogs,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Star Department,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
AZ,
Crash Course in Science,
Cal Tjader,
Mars,
Amon Düül,
Godley & Creme,
Jacob Miller,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sonic Youth,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Electric Prunes,
Crime,
Dark Day,
Mo-Dettes,
Infiniti,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Hashim,
Jawbox,
The Blackbyrds,
Toni Rubio,
Model 500,
Ken Boothe,
Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman.
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.