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 Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Au Pairs to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 New York Dolls. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Litter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott Heron,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Mars,
The Standells,
Rhythm & Sound,
Liliput,
Con Funk Shun,
Technova,
David Bowie,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Brick,
Sugar Minott,
Lebanon Hanover,
Soulsonic Force,
Todd Rundgren,
Young Marble Giants,
Lou Reed,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The American Breed,
F. McDonald,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sandy B,
Monolake,
Infiniti,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Warsaw,
Jeff Lynne,
Mary Jane Girls,
Marvin Gaye,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Marine Girls,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Neon Judgement,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Slackers,
The Walker Brothers,
Kas Product,
The Gun Club,
Wings,
Soul Sonic Force,
Alphaville,
Pantaleimon,
Clear Light,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
David Axelrod,
Barry Ungar,
Gregory Isaacs,
Todd Terry,
Archie Shepp,
New York Dolls,
Echospace,
Gichy Dan,
Josef K,
Skarface,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Animal Collective,
Eurythmics,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Niagra,
Wally Richardson,
The Monks,
ABBA,
Isaac Hayes,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.