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 Spain and from Paris.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Amon Düül II to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The United States of America. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Star Department record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines 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?
Hot Snakes,
Tom Boy,
Massinfluence,
The Martian,
Youth Brigade,
Soul Sonic Force,
Warren Ellis,
Desert Stars,
Dawn Penn,
Crash Course in Science,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Y Pants,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Chris Corsano,
Whodini,
Blancmange,
John Foxx,
Underground Resistance,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
John Cale,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Count Five,
Bush Tetras,
Ken Boothe,
Pere Ubu,
Masters at Work,
Eric Copeland,
Vladislav Delay,
EPMD,
Stiv Bators,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Black Moon,
Bobby Byrd,
X-101,
Siglo XX,
Mandrill,
The Toasters,
Metal Thangz,
Sonic Youth,
Avey Tare,
DJ Sneak,
Lalann,
Quadrant,
Barry Ungar,
Joe Finger,
Nico,
Boz Scaggs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ponytail,
Jeff Mills,
Bobby Sherman,
Erasure,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Freddie Wadling,
The Human League,
June of 44,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill.
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.