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 Nigeria and from Lagos.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the techno 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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s 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 Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
The Tremeloes,
Desert Stars,
The Count Five,
Steve Hackett,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Guru Guru,
John Cale,
Lalann,
Jeff Mills,
Country Joe & The Fish,
R.M.O.,
Delta 5,
Section 25,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pierre Henry,
Siglo XX,
Sound Behaviour,
Das Ding,
Roxy Music,
Cameo,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Brick,
Boz Scaggs,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Tubeway Army,
The Saints,
Vladislav Delay,
La Düsseldorf,
Soft Machine,
Peter and Kerry,
Qualms,
Adolescents,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Dual Sessions,
The Shadows of Knight,
Tomorrow,
Prince Buster,
Eddi Front,
Nick Fraelich,
Avey Tare,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
New Order,
Morten Harket,
Second Layer,
Lee Hazlewood,
Outsiders,
Dead Boys,
The Gap Band,
Banda Bassotti,
Joe Smooth,
the Slits,
Youth Brigade,
Arcadia,
One Last Wish,
Electric Prunes,
OOIOO,
Quando Quango,
Sugar Minott,
Ash Ra Tempel,
John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx.
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.