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 Ukraine and from Glasgow.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 güiro 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 Scrapy to the grime 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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All The Cure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABBA,
Urselle,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Cluster,
Idris Muhammad,
Althea and Donna,
Ponytail,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Monochrome Set,
John Lydon,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Absolute Body Control,
Yaz,
Vladislav Delay,
The Raincoats,
Rosa Yemen,
Crash Course in Science,
The Dead C,
The Smoke,
Thee Headcoats,
Man Parrish,
Steve Hackett,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
Hot Snakes,
Alphaville,
Rhythm & Sound,
Popol Vuh,
Ronnie Foster,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
New York Dolls,
Fugazi,
The Associates,
Quando Quango,
Eric Dolphy,
The Cure,
Jerry's Kids,
The Moleskins,
Bauhaus,
The Fall,
Unwound,
Junior Murvin,
Angry Samoans,
The Knickerbockers,
The Fuzztones,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Alison Limerick,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
DJ Style,
Crooked Eye,
Young Marble Giants,
Andrew Hill,
the Fania All-Stars,
Altered Images,
Pet Shop Boys,
Yusef Lateef,
Q65,
The Buckinghams,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Nas, Nas, Nas, Nas.
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.