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 Seychelles and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Dave Clark Five to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Whodini,
Lucky Dragons,
Intrusion,
Minutemen,
Rod Modell,
Danielle Patucci,
The Slits,
8 Eyed Spy,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
New Order,
Sonny Sharrock,
Shoche,
Agent Orange,
Groovy Waters,
Barrington Levy,
Barry Ungar,
Japan,
Vainqueur,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Cybotron,
Maurizio,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Echospace,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ice-T,
Procol Harum,
Crime,
Shuggie Otis,
Guru Guru,
Dead Boys,
a-ha,
The Blues Magoos,
One Last Wish,
UT,
Delta 5,
Main Source,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rekid,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mandrill,
The Vogues,
Judy Mowatt,
Panda Bear,
The Dave Clark Five,
Black Flag,
Simply Red,
Silicon Teens,
Aural Exciters,
the Bar-Kays,
Amazonics,
Idris Muhammad,
New Age Steppers,
The Gun Club,
Fela Kuti,
Pole,
Roy Ayers,
Gabor Szabo,
Eddi Front,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rites of Spring,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.