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 Macedonia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Cameo to the grunge 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 Gang Gang Dance. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fuzztones,
Harmonia,
Arcadia,
Porter Ricks,
Soul II Soul,
Mo-Dettes,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Selecter,
Hot Snakes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Glambeats Corp.,
Aaron Thompson,
Piero Umiliani,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Underground Resistance,
Junior Murvin,
The Black Dice,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Leonard Cohen,
Arab on Radar,
The Moleskins,
Severed Heads,
Donny Hathaway,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Whodini,
Todd Rundgren,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lalann,
Essential Logic,
The Buckinghams,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sixth Finger,
The Busters,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lower 48,
X-101,
Josef K,
Cymande,
This Heat,
The Fire Engines,
Jeff Mills,
Amon Düül,
Jacques Brel,
Con Funk Shun,
The Smiths,
D'Angelo,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Young Marble Giants,
Bill Near,
Fad Gadget,
Iggy Pop,
Outsiders,
The Pretty Things,
The Fugs,
The Slackers,
Sex Pistols,
OOIOO,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Fear,
Cal Tjader,
Lou Christie,
Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars.
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.