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 Nepal and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythm & Sound 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
the Association,
The Seeds,
Cameo,
Stiv Bators,
the Swans,
Alton Ellis,
Connie Case,
Basic Channel,
Pierre Henry,
Lungfish,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Spoonie Gee,
Chrome,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Scientists,
Newcleus,
Khruangbin,
Slave,
Tres Demented,
PIL,
Infiniti,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Hashim,
Popol Vuh,
DNA,
Kool Moe Dee,
Country Teasers,
Yaz,
Black Moon,
Bootsy Collins,
The Flesh Eaters,
Gang Starr,
Circle Jerks,
The Invisible,
Roxy Music,
Lou Christie,
Bizarre Inc.,
Whodini,
Ten City,
Neu!,
Groovy Waters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Skriet,
the Soft Cell,
Ice-T,
Don Cherry,
Malaria!,
Ituana,
Lalann,
Arthur Verocai,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Harpers Bizarre,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Toasters,
The Gun Club,
Young Marble Giants,
The Fall,
Lucky Dragons,
Nirvana,
The Divine Comedy,
Jacob Miller,
Roger Hodgson,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.