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 Bhutan and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 a-ha to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Starr record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
The Sonics,
Ohio Players,
MC5,
LL Cool J,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Cybotron,
Theoretical Girls,
Parry Music,
Eric Dolphy,
DJ Sneak,
Albert Ayler,
Don Cherry,
the Sonics,
Ossler,
Sparks,
Marshall Jefferson,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Amon Düül II,
Peter and Kerry,
Gang Starr,
Altered Images,
The Evens,
Chrome,
Laurel Aitken,
Blake Baxter,
Wasted Youth,
Stiv Bators,
David Axelrod,
Technova,
Nick Fraelich,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ultravox,
Pet Shop Boys,
Anakelly,
Sexual Harrassment,
Kerrie Biddell,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jeru the Damaja,
Chris Corsano,
Pulsallama,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ken Boothe,
Archie Shepp,
Brick,
Circle Jerks,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bill Wells,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sonny Sharrock,
Brothers Johnson,
Radio Birdman,
Harpers Bizarre,
Second Layer,
Johnny Osbourne,
Scientists,
Marvin Gaye,
Adolescents,
The Divine Comedy,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Last Poets,
Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
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.