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 Malta and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Detroit Cobras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Christie,
Max Romeo,
Drive Like Jehu,
Animal Collective,
DJ Sneak,
Section 25,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Blackbyrds,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
MDC,
Judy Mowatt,
Urselle,
Japan,
The Mojo Men,
Alton Ellis,
Gang Green,
Joe Smooth,
Fear,
Yaz,
Schoolly D,
Andrew Hill,
Youth Brigade,
Ken Boothe,
Roxy Music,
Godley & Creme,
Eric B and Rakim,
Crispy Ambulance,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
John Lydon,
The Toasters,
Delta 5,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Spoonie Gee,
Bob Dylan,
Ponytail,
The Music Machine,
Ituana,
Pantytec,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Con Funk Shun,
Flipper,
The Alarm Clocks,
Todd Terry,
Brand Nubian,
Quando Quango,
Bootsy Collins,
The Cowsills,
Davy DMX,
Sister Nancy,
The Monochrome Set,
Agent Orange,
Boz Scaggs,
Yazoo,
Minor Threat,
Cymande,
the Sonics,
Carl Craig,
H. Thieme,
Rapeman,
Kayak,
The Offenders,
R.M.O.,
Newcleus,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.