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 Austria and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Soulsonic Force to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Suburban Knight. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Laurel Aitken 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Move,
Delta 5,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Radio Birdman,
Eden Ahbez,
Rosa Yemen,
Eurythmics,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Tommy Roe,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Barracudas,
Average White Band,
Alison Limerick,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Fluxion,
Soul Sonic Force,
Soft Machine,
Desert Stars,
KRS-One,
Andrew Hill,
Ossler,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Basic Channel,
The Evens,
Skarface,
Negative Approach,
Ludus,
Swans,
Unrelated Segments,
The Stooges,
June Days,
The Toasters,
Kas Product,
Sound Behaviour,
Juan Atkins,
Glenn Branca,
The J.B.'s,
Susan Cadogan,
The Motions,
Heaven 17,
The United States of America,
The Cure,
Silicon Teens,
Mark Hollis,
Slave,
Masters at Work,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ten City,
The Gap Band,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Con Funk Shun,
FM Einheit,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Golliwogs,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Doors,
Robert Wyatt,
8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy.
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.