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 Guyana and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 theremin 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 Todd Terry to the rap 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 Morten Harket. All the underground hits.
All Howard Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lizzy Mercier Descloux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Evens,
Surgeon,
Loose Ends,
Y Pants,
Marcia Griffiths,
Slave,
Wasted Youth,
Excepter,
Davy DMX,
Mission of Burma,
Television,
U.S. Maple,
cv313,
Shoche,
Lungfish,
Amazonics,
Drive Like Jehu,
Supertramp,
Vainqueur,
Buzzcocks,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Shadows of Knight,
Albert Ayler,
Matthew Bourne,
The Grass Roots,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oblivians,
China Crisis,
Stiv Bators,
David Bowie,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Minny Pops,
Gil Scott Heron,
Scan 7,
Accadde A,
Procol Harum,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Five Americans,
Banda Bassotti,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Harry Pussy,
Youth Brigade,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Alton Ellis,
Underground Resistance,
Bob Dylan,
Animal Collective,
Average White Band,
Minutemen,
Lightning Bolt,
Peter & Gordon,
Scrapy,
Niagra,
Desert Stars,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Radio Birdman,
Joe Smooth,
Bauhaus,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.