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 Ireland and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Lou Reed 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 Alton Ellis to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Y Pants. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Letta Mbulu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Gil Scott Heron,
Fluxion,
Q65,
Fad Gadget,
Scan 7,
Jacob Miller,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Essential Logic,
Susan Cadogan,
DJ Style,
Television,
The Dave Clark Five,
Darondo,
James White and The Blacks,
Siglo XX,
Jacques Brel,
The Knickerbockers,
Massinfluence,
New Age Steppers,
June Days,
Sällskapet,
The Music Machine,
Roxy Music,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Crispy Ambulance,
Brass Construction,
Pulsallama,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Zeros,
Inner City,
Absolute Body Control,
Sam Rivers,
Swell Maps,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Arthur Verocai,
Sandy B,
Thompson Twins,
Joyce Sims,
The Associates,
Can,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Cowsills,
Slave,
Hasil Adkins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crash Course in Science,
Jeff Lynne,
Ossler,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Angels of Light,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Offenders,
Bobby Byrd,
CMW,
Monks,
Electric Light Orchestra,
the Fania All-Stars,
Godley & Creme,
Lucky Dragons,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.