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 Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 mellotron 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 Royal Trux to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tres Demented,
Radiopuhelimet,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Stereo Dub,
The Selecter,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Audionom,
Letta Mbulu,
Lindisfarne,
Maleditus Sound,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Clear Light,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Scientists,
The Divine Comedy,
Soft Machine,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Niagra,
Magma,
Wally Richardson,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The New Christs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Grandmaster Flash,
Accadde A,
Erykah Badu,
Bobby Sherman,
The Golliwogs,
Toni Rubio,
Soul II Soul,
Oneida,
Barrington Levy,
Amon Düül II,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Agitation Free,
Jerry's Kids,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Misunderstood,
Black Bananas,
Malaria!,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Scott Walker,
Unwound,
Darondo,
Ituana,
Visage,
Cameo,
Roxy Music,
Dual Sessions,
Eyeless In Gaza,
These Immortal Souls,
Boz Scaggs,
Swell Maps,
The Monochrome Set,
Graham Central Station,
Fluxion,
Black Pus,
Shuggie Otis,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.