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 India and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 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 Alice Coltrane to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radio Birdman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Robert Görl,
Negative Approach,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pole,
Japan,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Gregory Isaacs,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The United States of America,
Quantec,
Sam Rivers,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
LL Cool J,
The Sisters of Mercy,
John Foxx,
Lungfish,
Desert Stars,
Joy Division,
Bill Near,
Intrusion,
Donny Hathaway,
Cheater Slicks,
Joyce Sims,
the Normal,
Mantronix,
Ossler,
Lyres,
Neu!,
T. Rex,
Kayak,
Jacob Miller,
David McCallum,
Amazonics,
Tres Demented,
Archie Shepp,
The Count Five,
MC5,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Music Machine,
The Monks,
Camberwell Now,
Maleditus Sound,
The Gories,
The Smoke,
Kevin Saunderson,
Aaron Thompson,
Nils Olav,
In Retrospect,
the Slits,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Last Poets,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kerrie Biddell,
Whodini,
Public Enemy,
Harmonia,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow.
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.