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 United Kingdom and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Cairo.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Jerry's Kids to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Moss Icon. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Detroit Cobras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Stetsasonic,
The Count Five,
Donny Hathaway,
Eric Dolphy,
Joe Smooth,
Eddi Front,
The Vogues,
Deakin,
Fear,
Amazonics,
Theoretical Girls,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Beau Brummels,
Michelle Simonal,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Connie Case,
Guru Guru,
Schoolly D,
Skarface,
Eden Ahbez,
Flamin' Groovies,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Misunderstood,
Big Daddy Kane,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nas,
The Evens,
The Walker Brothers,
Steve Hackett,
Sällskapet,
Andrew Hill,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Quando Quango,
The Residents,
The Pretty Things,
Flash Fearless,
Lower 48,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Litter,
Kayak,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Hot Snakes,
Black Sheep,
Wasted Youth,
Eric B and Rakim,
Circle Jerks,
The Associates,
Pet Shop Boys,
Marcia Griffiths,
Tubeway Army,
The Standells,
John Coltrane,
Mantronix,
Isaac Hayes,
Minnie Riperton,
Junior Murvin,
Scion,
Lyres,
Sugar Minott,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.