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 Cyprus and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Glasgow.
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 linndrum 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 Inner City to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All 8 Eyed Spy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Victims 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slave,
Pierre Henry,
KRS-One,
Joey Negro,
Marvin Gaye,
The Golliwogs,
Warsaw,
Camberwell Now,
Surgeon,
Chris & Cosey,
Faraquet,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Arab on Radar,
The Invisible,
Black Pus,
Delta 5,
Ultravox,
Au Pairs,
Kayak,
Alice Coltrane,
Soul II Soul,
The Gladiators,
Model 500,
The Slits,
Nation of Ulysses,
Zero Boys,
Pylon,
Amon Düül II,
David Bowie,
China Crisis,
Sixth Finger,
Public Enemy,
Thee Headcoats,
Bill Near,
The Cosmic Jokers,
DNA,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Moss Icon,
The Doors,
Con Funk Shun,
Minutemen,
Porter Ricks,
These Immortal Souls,
Intrusion,
Nas,
Barry Ungar,
Sonny Sharrock,
Juan Atkins,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Josef K,
Von Mondo,
Black Sheep,
Lalann,
Radio Birdman,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Alison Limerick,
Duran Duran,
Deepchord,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Angels of Light,
Fela Kuti, Fela Kuti, Fela Kuti, Fela Kuti.
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.