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 Chile and from Glasgow.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Delhi.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the theremin 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 Henry Cow to the jazz 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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The American Breed,
Thee Headcoats,
Glambeats Corp.,
Little Man,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Moleskins,
The Neon Judgement,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Gap Band,
Soft Machine,
Brick,
Basic Channel,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
John Holt,
Adolescents,
Skaos,
The Techniques,
Scott Walker,
Hasil Adkins,
The Monochrome Set,
The Young Rascals,
The Sonics,
the Sonics,
Peter and Kerry,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Faust,
Sister Nancy,
Gichy Dan,
The Five Americans,
Juan Atkins,
Barrington Levy,
Dual Sessions,
Donny Hathaway,
Lightning Bolt,
Blancmange,
Bizarre Inc.,
Accadde A,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Man Parrish,
John Lydon,
Tears for Fears,
The Human League,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Rakim,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Blossom Toes,
Janne Schatter,
Index,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Cecil Taylor,
The Gladiators,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Alarm Clocks,
In Retrospect,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Toni Rubio,
KRS-One,
Pylon,
The Tremeloes,
Lebanon Hanover,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.