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 Paraguay and from Lyon.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Manchester.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar 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 Bizarre Inc. to the grime 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 Bobby Womack. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Moby Grape,
The Pop Group,
Thompson Twins,
Animal Collective,
Gastr Del Sol,
Alison Limerick,
Tres Demented,
Marmalade,
Surgeon,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Hasil Adkins,
Frankie Knuckles,
MC5,
Mars,
A Certain Ratio,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
DNA,
the Bar-Kays,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Jandek,
Icehouse,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Marine Girls,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Second Layer,
Delta 5,
Grauzone,
Gichy Dan,
Amon Düül II,
Mission of Burma,
Mark Hollis,
Jawbox,
The Fortunes,
Darondo,
Blossom Toes,
8 Eyed Spy,
New York Dolls,
Talk Talk,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ten City,
the Slits,
Lee Hazlewood,
Hoover,
Section 25,
Absolute Body Control,
The Pretty Things,
Tears for Fears,
Ultimate Spinach,
48th St. Collective,
Altered Images,
These Immortal Souls,
The Remains,
Cybotron,
Kaleidoscope,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Country Teasers,
The Star Department,
Traffic Nightmare,
Steve Hackett,
Television Personalities,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.