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 Botswana and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lyon.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
Average White Band,
Hasil Adkins,
Banda Bassotti,
Eric B and Rakim,
Deadbeat,
Sandy B,
Jeff Mills,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Yaz,
The Electric Prunes,
The Grass Roots,
The Mummies,
Darondo,
Mars,
Minny Pops,
Whodini,
Steve Hackett,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Busters,
Audionom,
Al Stewart,
Spandau Ballet,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Tres Demented,
Carl Craig,
Siglo XX,
Soulsonic Force,
Half Japanese,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Victims,
John Cale,
Monolake,
Rosa Yemen,
The Durutti Column,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Star Department,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
L. Decosne,
F. McDonald,
Infiniti,
Harmonia,
Soul II Soul,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rites of Spring,
The Gories,
Derrick May,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Selecter,
Mantronix,
David Bowie,
Funky Four + One,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jawbox,
Jerry Gold Smith,
EPMD,
The Raincoats,
Gabor Szabo,
The Doobie Brothers,
Nas,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock 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.