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 the UAE and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Spandau Ballet to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
Q and Not U,
The Martian,
Tubeway Army,
This Heat,
Joensuu 1685,
Roxette,
Blake Baxter,
UT,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Panda Bear,
Rakim,
The Gories,
The Associates,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rosa Yemen,
EPMD,
The Skatalites,
Bluetip,
Fatback Band,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Brand Nubian,
ABBA,
The Angels of Light,
The Knickerbockers,
Gastr Del Sol,
MDC,
The Blues Magoos,
China Crisis,
Average White Band,
The Moody Blues,
Section 25,
Harpers Bizarre,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Das Ding,
Yazoo,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Thompson Twins,
Kaleidoscope,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Cramps,
Mary Jane Girls,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Scrapy,
Groovy Waters,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Anakelly,
Gang Green,
Robert Wyatt,
Kerrie Biddell,
Dennis Brown,
Buzzcocks,
Tropical Tobacco,
Deakin,
Delon & Dalcan,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.