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 Sudan and from Houston.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Anakelly to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion 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 a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Eric B and Rakim,
Absolute Body Control,
The Sonics,
Soulsonic Force,
Urselle,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Von Mondo,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Grauzone,
Skarface,
Altered Images,
Faraquet,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Susan Cadogan,
Pole,
The Golliwogs,
Newcleus,
Infiniti,
Flamin' Groovies,
Heaven 17,
The Smiths,
D'Angelo,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Neon Judgement,
LL Cool J,
B.T. Express,
Lou Christie,
Kas Product,
Amazonics,
Thompson Twins,
Roy Ayers,
Tomorrow,
Theoretical Girls,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Leonard Cohen,
Q65,
Easy Going,
La Düsseldorf,
Jeru the Damaja,
Young Marble Giants,
the Swans,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Morten Harket,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Organ,
Interpol,
Piero Umiliani,
Junior Murvin,
The Happenings,
the Human League,
Brothers Johnson,
Moss Icon,
Boogie Down Productions,
Thee Headcoats,
Anakelly,
Cheater Slicks,
Model 500,
John Cale,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Busters,
The Fall, The Fall, The Fall, The Fall.
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.