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 Greece and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Stooges 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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All the Fania All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Barrington Levy,
Stetsasonic,
The American Breed,
Glambeats Corp.,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Brass Construction,
Alton Ellis,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pere Ubu,
Aaron Thompson,
Mission of Burma,
The Gories,
Underground Resistance,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Doors,
Cecil Taylor,
Nico,
Warren Ellis,
Talk Talk,
Magazine,
Bizarre Inc.,
Godley & Creme,
Colin Newman,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jeff Mills,
Brothers Johnson,
Desert Stars,
Arcadia,
The Misunderstood,
The Black Dice,
Hoover,
Marcia Griffiths,
48th St. Collective,
Average White Band,
Symarip,
Dark Day,
Wolf Eyes,
Bill Wells,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Velvet Underground,
Radio Birdman,
Ken Boothe,
Joyce Sims,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Blake Baxter,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Saints,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Animal Collective,
Goldenarms,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Terrestrial Tones,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Spoonie Gee,
Funky Four + One,
Susan Cadogan,
Matthew Halsall,
Juan Atkins,
The Trojans,
The Divine Comedy,
Audionom,
Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson.
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.