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 Lesotho and from Houston.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 theremin 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 Cluster to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Saints. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tim Buckley 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Human League,
Ice-T,
Bill Near,
The Leaves,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Wally Richardson,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Doors,
Grauzone,
Q and Not U,
Crime,
Robert Wyatt,
Youth Brigade,
Alton Ellis,
U.S. Maple,
Qualms,
Mandrill,
Glenn Branca,
Sister Nancy,
Audionom,
In Retrospect,
Kurtis Blow,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Roxy Music,
Mantronix,
Fear,
Khruangbin,
Swell Maps,
Basic Channel,
Robert Görl,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The New Christs,
Underground Resistance,
Supertramp,
The American Breed,
The Remains,
Icehouse,
Todd Terry,
Groovy Waters,
Soul II Soul,
Delta 5,
Fat Boys,
Gabor Szabo,
Sugar Minott,
Mission of Burma,
Curtis Mayfield,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bush Tetras,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Walker Brothers,
Matthew Halsall,
Zero Boys,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Erykah Badu,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Monochrome Set,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Names,
Bad Manners,
The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills.
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.