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 Germany and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 Colin Newman to the techno 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 Sight & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Howard Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas 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 an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Detroit Cobras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Camouflage,
The Monochrome Set,
CMW,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Minnie Riperton,
Sparks,
Animal Collective,
Parry Music,
Pere Ubu,
Little Man,
Ultra Naté,
Janne Schatter,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Cure,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Adolescents,
Bobby Sherman,
The Move,
Radio Birdman,
Eddi Front,
Robert Hood,
L. Decosne,
Lungfish,
Babytalk,
Fela Kuti,
Thee Headcoats,
Robert Görl,
Joy Division,
Joensuu 1685,
The Saints,
Japan,
Talk Talk,
Radiopuhelimet,
Main Source,
Judy Mowatt,
Essential Logic,
Fear,
Rhythm & Sound,
Archie Shepp,
The Cramps,
Faust,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Jerry's Kids,
The Modern Lovers,
The Gap Band,
Toni Rubio,
Lindisfarne,
Loose Ends,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Grey Daturas,
Gang Green,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Young Rascals,
Hardrive,
The Skatalites,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gerry Rafferty,
Moss Icon,
Suicide,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.