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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Jakarta.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Goldenarms to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Talk Talk 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Lebanon Hanover,
Talk Talk,
Television,
Camberwell Now,
A Certain Ratio,
the Fania All-Stars,
Eddi Front,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sparks,
Donny Hathaway,
The Modern Lovers,
Soul II Soul,
Y Pants,
Black Bananas,
John Coltrane,
Fluxion,
In Retrospect,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jeff Mills,
Sugar Minott,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Associates,
Minutemen,
Little Man,
Blancmange,
Sister Nancy,
Warsaw,
The Evens,
Maleditus Sound,
Joyce Sims,
Glambeats Corp.,
Los Fastidios,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Moody Blues,
Erasure,
Isaac Hayes,
Man Parrish,
Silicon Teens,
Royal Trux,
Public Enemy,
Guru Guru,
The Monochrome Set,
Joensuu 1685,
Pierre Henry,
Bang On A Can,
The Pop Group,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sandy B,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
John Cale,
Sarah Menescal,
Ossler,
Lungfish,
Carl Craig,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Raincoats,
The Neon Judgement,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.