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 Mauritania and from Salvador.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Stockholm.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 crunk 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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Victims record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Tom Boy,
Avey Tare,
Bill Wells,
Babytalk,
Lou Christie,
U.S. Maple,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Banda Bassotti,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Scan 7,
the Slits,
Jeru the Damaja,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lucky Dragons,
Magma,
Bobby Byrd,
Eden Ahbez,
Scratch Acid,
Deepchord,
The Smiths,
The Saints,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Zapp,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Red Krayola,
June Days,
Heaven 17,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Suburban Knight,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Inner City,
Faraquet,
Rosa Yemen,
Michelle Simonal,
Dave Gahan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bronski Beat,
The Cure,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Stooges,
Gregory Isaacs,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rites of Spring,
Mandrill,
Camberwell Now,
Stereo Dub,
Anthony Braxton,
Radiopuhelimet,
Neil Young,
Los Fastidios,
Minor Threat,
Darondo,
Ice-T,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department.
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.