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 Italy and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moleskins,
Reuben Wilson,
Soulsonic Force,
Derrick May,
Nick Fraelich,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Make Up,
The Barracudas,
DJ Style,
Eli Mardock,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Marcia Griffiths,
K-Klass,
X-102,
Nation of Ulysses,
Eric B and Rakim,
Black Sheep,
Bill Near,
Deakin,
Jandek,
Robert Wyatt,
Kerrie Biddell,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Leonard Cohen,
Flipper,
Ituana,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sixth Finger,
The Busters,
Pole,
Los Fastidios,
Chrome,
New Age Steppers,
Danielle Patucci,
Matthew Bourne,
Warsaw,
Robert Görl,
Bizarre Inc.,
Minnie Riperton,
Joy Division,
Darondo,
Man Parrish,
The Moody Blues,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gang of Four,
Jacques Brel,
The Motions,
Pagans,
The Gap Band,
Bobby Womack,
Rod Modell,
Bootsy Collins,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Heaven 17,
FM Einheit,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lalo Schifrin,
Jesper Dahlback,
Patti Smith,
Panda Bear,
B.T. Express,
Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec.
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.