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 Suriname and from Edmonton.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Minny Pops to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Letta Mbulu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Index,
Schoolly D,
Thompson Twins,
Juan Atkins,
Swell Maps,
Funkadelic,
Rotary Connection,
Funky Four + One,
UT,
Unwound,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Charles Mingus,
Crooked Eye,
Surgeon,
Fifty Foot Hose,
F. McDonald,
Yellowson,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Das Ding,
Alice Coltrane,
The Move,
Jacques Brel,
Visage,
Mandrill,
Panda Bear,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Five Americans,
June Days,
The Invisible,
Matthew Halsall,
Derrick May,
Josef K,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Birthday Party,
Bush Tetras,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sonic Youth,
Morten Harket,
New York Dolls,
The Doors,
The Cowsills,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gastr Del Sol,
Massinfluence,
Marmalade,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Eden Ahbez,
The Remains,
The New Christs,
Toni Rubio,
Clear Light,
The Gladiators,
Public Image Ltd.,
Derrick Morgan,
Colin Newman,
Unrelated Segments,
The Young Rascals,
Mars,
Trumans Water,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.