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 Seychelles and from Shanghai.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 crunk 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 Television Personalities. All the underground hits.
All Shoche tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Jerry's Kids,
Deakin,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jimmy McGriff,
Easy Going,
The Gap Band,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ten City,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Basic Channel,
Isaac Hayes,
Sixth Finger,
Avey Tare,
The Offenders,
Warsaw,
a-ha,
Erasure,
Neu!,
Suburban Knight,
Soul Sonic Force,
Underground Resistance,
Eli Mardock,
Derrick May,
Gang Green,
Crispy Ambulance,
Saccharine Trust,
Siglo XX,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Reuben Wilson,
Nik Kershaw,
Robert Wyatt,
The Young Rascals,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gerry Rafferty,
June Days,
Swell Maps,
Throbbing Gristle,
Wolf Eyes,
Alison Limerick,
Moebius,
Gang Starr,
Jawbox,
Bobby Byrd,
Mars,
The Black Dice,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Joensuu 1685,
Nirvana,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Grandmaster Flash,
Barrington Levy,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cheater Slicks,
Gang of Four,
Zapp,
The Star Department,
Massinfluence,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.