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 Austria and from Toronto.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Boredoms to the rock 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 Metal Thangz. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ralphi Rosario 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
10cc,
Charles Mingus,
Icehouse,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
John Coltrane,
Excepter,
Darondo,
The Real Kids,
KRS-One,
Janne Schatter,
Boz Scaggs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gabor Szabo,
Lindisfarne,
Bauhaus,
The Monochrome Set,
Kurtis Blow,
John Foxx,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Mark Hollis,
Letta Mbulu,
Suicide,
Joey Negro,
R.M.O.,
Robert Wyatt,
Pussy Galore,
Con Funk Shun,
Quantec,
The Fugs,
Piero Umiliani,
Bronski Beat,
Erasure,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Niagra,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Cameo,
The Fire Engines,
Tomorrow,
The Selecter,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Goldenarms,
Section 25,
Mandrill,
Panda Bear,
Donny Hathaway,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Tim Buckley,
Gichy Dan,
It's A Beautiful Day,
MDC,
The Vogues,
Quadrant,
The Evens,
Godley & Creme,
The Five Americans,
Andrew Hill,
the Normal,
Q and Not U,
Echospace,
Pylon,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.