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 Estonia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Theoretical Girls to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
Peter and Kerry,
Trumans Water,
The Vogues,
CMW,
These Immortal Souls,
La Düsseldorf,
Negative Approach,
Dual Sessions,
In Retrospect,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lower 48,
Amon Düül II,
Gerry Rafferty,
Guru Guru,
Model 500,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Wings,
Grandmaster Flash,
Curtis Mayfield,
R.M.O.,
Tim Buckley,
Nico,
World's Most,
Zapp,
Nas,
Bang On A Can,
X-101,
the Bar-Kays,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Joe Finger,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Barracudas,
The Raincoats,
Roxy Music,
Dark Day,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
E-Dancer,
The Wake,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Carl Craig,
Shuggie Otis,
Pharoah Sanders,
Vainqueur,
The American Breed,
Moss Icon,
The Shadows of Knight,
Isaac Hayes,
Godley & Creme,
Camberwell Now,
Throbbing Gristle,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bob Dylan,
Janne Schatter,
The Last Poets,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.