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 Yemen and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Derrick Morgan to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Circle Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tropical Tobacco,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Yusef Lateef,
John Lydon,
Young Marble Giants,
Crispy Ambulance,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Cure,
Country Teasers,
Sugar Minott,
Delta 5,
Alphaville,
Stereo Dub,
Thompson Twins,
Scan 7,
Lalo Schifrin,
Derrick May,
Eric Copeland,
Pharoah Sanders,
Saccharine Trust,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Music Machine,
Monolake,
John Holt,
Pierre Henry,
Underground Resistance,
Arcadia,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jawbox,
Porter Ricks,
The Leaves,
Average White Band,
Grauzone,
Make Up,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Agitation Free,
Kerri Chandler,
The Victims,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
EPMD,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Misunderstood,
The Mojo Men,
Cal Tjader,
Procol Harum,
Byron Stingily,
Alton Ellis,
Michelle Simonal,
Second Layer,
Archie Shepp,
The Golliwogs,
Deadbeat,
Goldenarms,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Thee Headcoats,
Amon Düül,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.