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 Kyrgyzstan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Philadelphia.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Soft Machine to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gang Starr. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord 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 spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Erykah Badu,
Pole,
Basic Channel,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rakim,
Drive Like Jehu,
Procol Harum,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Modern Lovers,
Monks,
Kool Moe Dee,
Morten Harket,
Kerri Chandler,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ituana,
Radiopuhelimet,
Underground Resistance,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Dirtbombs,
Smog,
The Last Poets,
K-Klass,
Scion,
The Standells,
the Association,
Intrusion,
FM Einheit,
Roy Ayers,
Cal Tjader,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
June of 44,
Sällskapet,
Nik Kershaw,
Slave,
Gastr Del Sol,
Freddie Wadling,
Royal Trux,
Public Image Ltd.,
Q and Not U,
the Sonics,
Heaven 17,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Guru Guru,
Popol Vuh,
R.M.O.,
This Heat,
Swans,
Altered Images,
The Seeds,
Rekid,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Junior Murvin,
Chris Corsano,
Amon Düül II,
Mr. Review,
Stiv Bators,
Aswad,
Joey Negro,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.