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 Armenia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 arpeggiator 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 Marine Girls to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx 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?
Hasil Adkins,
Scratch Acid,
Ornette Coleman,
Robert Hood,
Maurizio,
Second Layer,
Erasure,
LL Cool J,
Siglo XX,
Stockholm Monsters,
Dead Boys,
Absolute Body Control,
Monks,
Leonard Cohen,
Harpers Bizarre,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Negative Approach,
Sex Pistols,
Yusef Lateef,
Lightning Bolt,
Delta 5,
Stetsasonic,
Unwound,
The American Breed,
The Happenings,
Terry Callier,
The Associates,
Marine Girls,
Camberwell Now,
Ten City,
The Shadows of Knight,
Amon Düül II,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
John Lydon,
The Slits,
Neu!,
OOIOO,
Motorama,
The Grass Roots,
Rapeman,
T.S.O.L.,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Mantronix,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Fuzztones,
These Immortal Souls,
Sonic Youth,
Rod Modell,
Jeff Lynne,
ABC,
Hashim,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Faraquet,
The Human League,
Gabor Szabo,
Mandrill,
Shoche,
Soul II Soul,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.