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 Czech Republic and from Toronto.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 chamberlin 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 Bob Dylan to the dance 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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Index record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Au Pairs,
Slave,
China Crisis,
the Swans,
Essential Logic,
The Victims,
The Smoke,
Banda Bassotti,
La Düsseldorf,
Ituana,
Sonic Youth,
Leonard Cohen,
Excepter,
Fear,
Robert Wyatt,
Harmonia,
The Fortunes,
Sister Nancy,
Gichy Dan,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Reuben Wilson,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Gap Band,
New Order,
The Cure,
the Human League,
Idris Muhammad,
UT,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Thompson Twins,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bad Manners,
Royal Trux,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
David Bowie,
The Leaves,
Blancmange,
David McCallum,
The Sound,
In Retrospect,
Slick Rick,
Marcia Griffiths,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Happenings,
Little Man,
Marvin Gaye,
Matthew Bourne,
Tears for Fears,
Terry Callier,
Swans,
Moss Icon,
Marine Girls,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Knickerbockers,
Ten City,
Dual Sessions,
Avey Tare,
Radiopuhelimet,
Black Sheep,
Lou Christie,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.