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 Bulgaria and from Halifax.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Doors to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gang of Four. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
David Axelrod,
K-Klass,
X-102,
Guru Guru,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Fatback Band,
Yellowson,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
PIL,
This Heat,
Fat Boys,
The Evens,
Kerrie Biddell,
Accadde A,
The Fall,
Joe Smooth,
Crispian St. Peters,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Minny Pops,
Lou Christie,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Chris Corsano,
Moebius,
Brothers Johnson,
The Pop Group,
Moss Icon,
the Swans,
Mantronix,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Scientists,
The Sonics,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Tremeloes,
Crash Course in Science,
Eric Copeland,
Cymande,
Rotary Connection,
The Happenings,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Dead Boys,
Henry Cow,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Robert Wyatt,
Grey Daturas,
Excepter,
The Last Poets,
Idris Muhammad,
The Blues Magoos,
Robert Hood,
Mandrill,
Fluxion,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Monks,
The Standells,
Suicide,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Hashim,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
MC5,
Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav.
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.