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 Singapore and from Columbus.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 spring reverb 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 Gang Green to the rap 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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Archie Shepp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
Bill Wells,
Rapeman,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
cv313,
Zero Boys,
The Slackers,
New Age Steppers,
The Trojans,
Soulsonic Force,
Au Pairs,
F. McDonald,
Jandek,
Fluxion,
Public Enemy,
Oneida,
Cluster,
Tropical Tobacco,
Marvin Gaye,
Flipper,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Crime,
DJ Style,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
John Coltrane,
Ludus,
The Velvet Underground,
Lower 48,
The Misunderstood,
Adolescents,
Aswad,
Radiohead,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Real Kids,
The Young Rascals,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Kurtis Blow,
Flamin' Groovies,
Harmonia,
Organ,
Drexciya,
Rotary Connection,
The Index,
the Soft Cell,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Newcleus,
Grauzone,
The Blackbyrds,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Joyce Sims,
Outsiders,
Joensuu 1685,
Malaria!,
The Move,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Grass Roots,
Funkadelic,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Residents,
10cc,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.