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 Sri Lanka and from Mexico City.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Schoolly D to the funk 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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Style,
Bill Near,
Trumans Water,
Todd Rundgren,
Pere Ubu,
Organ,
The Dave Clark Five,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Dirtbombs,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Chris Corsano,
Brick,
Clear Light,
Gang Green,
Oneida,
The Five Americans,
Neil Young,
Cymande,
The Electric Prunes,
Unrelated Segments,
Erykah Badu,
Saccharine Trust,
The Doobie Brothers,
Josef K,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Idris Muhammad,
Janne Schatter,
The Knickerbockers,
Marvin Gaye,
the Bar-Kays,
Jandek,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Byron Stingily,
Procol Harum,
The Gap Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
John Coltrane,
Johnny Osbourne,
Nik Kershaw,
The Young Rascals,
Dorothy Ashby,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Masters at Work,
a-ha,
Sun City Girls,
Crooked Eye,
Skarface,
Japan,
The New Christs,
The Gladiators,
Popol Vuh,
Radio Birdman,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Wolf Eyes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Moby Grape,
Electric Prunes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.