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 Palau and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Barracudas to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vladislav Delay,
Arthur Verocai,
The Raincoats,
Brick,
Neil Young,
Marmalade,
Gastr Del Sol,
EPMD,
Barrington Levy,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Lungfish,
The Index,
Audionom,
8 Eyed Spy,
Crash Course in Science,
Mantronix,
Lalann,
Mark Hollis,
Delta 5,
The Evens,
Duran Duran,
Alice Coltrane,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ultra Naté,
Gang Green,
48th St. Collective,
Absolute Body Control,
Circle Jerks,
Organ,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Franke,
Reuben Wilson,
Japan,
The Motions,
Thee Headcoats,
The Five Americans,
Zapp,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Cowsills,
Alison Limerick,
Be Bop Deluxe,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Motorama,
The Gladiators,
Pantytec,
Brothers Johnson,
The Fuzztones,
Public Image Ltd.,
Make Up,
Marcia Griffiths,
John Lydon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Colin Newman,
Robert Wyatt,
Juan Atkins,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Beau Brummels,
The Buckinghams,
Scion,
Pulsallama,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.