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 Netherlands and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 mellotron 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
Joy Division,
Albert Ayler,
Marmalade,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Average White Band,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Barry Ungar,
Thompson Twins,
Radio Birdman,
Soul II Soul,
Severed Heads,
Eli Mardock,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Joyce Sims,
The Young Rascals,
Erykah Badu,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gabor Szabo,
The Velvet Underground,
Minor Threat,
The Music Machine,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
FM Einheit,
Al Stewart,
The Sound,
The Barracudas,
In Retrospect,
Scrapy,
U.S. Maple,
The Martian,
Q and Not U,
Wally Richardson,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Last Poets,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lakeside,
DJ Sneak,
Franke,
Charles Mingus,
Arcadia,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Litter,
The Skatalites,
Q65,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Porter Ricks,
X-102,
Arab on Radar,
Technova,
Japan,
Piero Umiliani,
Dennis Brown,
Amon Düül,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Hot Snakes,
The Residents,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.