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 Ivory Coast and from Manila.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Donny Hathaway to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tres Demented,
The Monochrome Set,
Gastr Del Sol,
Minor Threat,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lungfish,
Television Personalities,
Shuggie Otis,
Flipper,
Big Daddy Kane,
Matthew Halsall,
Icehouse,
Livin' Joy,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kool Moe Dee,
Symarip,
Yazoo,
Circle Jerks,
E-Dancer,
Slave,
Bobby Sherman,
Flamin' Groovies,
Marshall Jefferson,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
T. Rex,
Gichy Dan,
The Invisible,
Steve Hackett,
Gong,
John Cale,
FM Einheit,
Guru Guru,
Can,
Eddi Front,
Half Japanese,
La Düsseldorf,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Aswad,
Malaria!,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fad Gadget,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Outsiders,
Radio Birdman,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lou Christie,
Black Moon,
Unwound,
The Pop Group,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Simply Red,
Barrington Levy,
The Gladiators,
Henry Cow,
the Sonics,
Au Pairs,
Slick Rick,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.