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 Montenegro and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Black Sheep 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 The Royal Family And The Poor. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
Kas Product,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gil Scott Heron,
Boz Scaggs,
The Modern Lovers,
Maurizio,
Bootsy Collins,
Eddi Front,
Essential Logic,
Scrapy,
World's Most,
Moby Grape,
Soft Cell,
Donny Hathaway,
The Electric Prunes,
Vainqueur,
Marshall Jefferson,
Zapp,
Suburban Knight,
Gabor Szabo,
Khruangbin,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rufus Thomas,
The Residents,
Babytalk,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Funkadelic,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lindisfarne,
FM Einheit,
Alphaville,
Bush Tetras,
Amon Düül,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sun Ra,
Eli Mardock,
The Barracudas,
Boogie Down Productions,
Deepchord,
Marc Almond,
Barbara Tucker,
Crooked Eye,
Todd Terry,
The Evens,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ossler,
Supertramp,
Rakim,
Scott Walker,
The Dead C,
Youth Brigade,
Black Pus,
The Divine Comedy,
Model 500,
Echospace,
Metal Thangz,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.