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 Mexico and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 These Immortal Souls to the electroclash 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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boredoms,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Black Bananas,
The Golliwogs,
Con Funk Shun,
Silicon Teens,
Neu!,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Q65,
Tim Buckley,
Animal Collective,
The Sonics,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marvin Gaye,
The Dirtbombs,
Unwound,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Standells,
The Techniques,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sister Nancy,
Jeff Lynne,
Aural Exciters,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
the Normal,
Eli Mardock,
Sällskapet,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
T. Rex,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Model 500,
Deepchord,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Terry Callier,
Lalo Schifrin,
Stetsasonic,
Black Pus,
Spoonie Gee,
The Moleskins,
Sam Rivers,
Barrington Levy,
Mo-Dettes,
Wolf Eyes,
Quantec,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Red Krayola,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Walker Brothers,
Jacob Miller,
The Happenings,
Rakim,
Ultravox,
Rod Modell,
Hasil Adkins,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Underground Resistance,
Lungfish,
The Cure,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Camouflage,
Severed Heads,
Amon Düül,
The Monks, The Monks, The Monks, The Monks.
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.