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 Botswana and from Lille.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the 808 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 Robert Görl to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gong. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ 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?
Rapeman,
Big Daddy Kane,
Brand Nubian,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Flipper,
Sällskapet,
Silicon Teens,
Idris Muhammad,
The Slackers,
The Blackbyrds,
Johnny Clarke,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Unrelated Segments,
Camberwell Now,
Metal Thangz,
The Fall,
Duran Duran,
Erasure,
Michelle Simonal,
Pussy Galore,
Pantaleimon,
The Flesh Eaters,
Crooked Eye,
The Dave Clark Five,
Amazonics,
Boogie Down Productions,
Accadde A,
Stetsasonic,
Lebanon Hanover,
Grauzone,
The Pretty Things,
Gerry Rafferty,
Matthew Halsall,
Soulsonic Force,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Janne Schatter,
The Skatalites,
Can,
Scrapy,
Joey Negro,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Brass Construction,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Crash Course in Science,
Dark Day,
Deadbeat,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Arab on Radar,
Outsiders,
Colin Newman,
a-ha,
Monks,
Lyres,
Kaleidoscope,
The Barracudas,
Aswad,
Roxy Music,
Supertramp,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Technova,
Ossler, Ossler, Ossler, Ossler.
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.