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 Kiribati and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 guitar 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 Rufus Thomas to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Pop Group. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siglo XX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ludus,
Theoretical Girls,
World's Most,
Lower 48,
Altered Images,
Chrome,
Sight & Sound,
Prince Buster,
Matthew Bourne,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Davy DMX,
the Germs,
10cc,
Josef K,
Desert Stars,
Kerri Chandler,
Thee Headcoats,
Excepter,
The Music Machine,
Soft Machine,
The Techniques,
The Buckinghams,
X-102,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Alton Ellis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Zapp,
Sonic Youth,
Jeff Mills,
The Black Dice,
The Evens,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Skriet,
Soulsonic Force,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Wolf Eyes,
Franke,
Curtis Mayfield,
Marvin Gaye,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Girls At Our Best!,
Crash Course in Science,
Procol Harum,
Eli Mardock,
Khruangbin,
The Cowsills,
Terry Callier,
Alphaville,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Todd Terry,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jawbox,
Patti Smith,
T. Rex,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Pagans,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.