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 Singapore and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 güiro 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 Rufus Thomas to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Doobie Brothers. All the underground hits.
All D'Angelo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
The Happenings,
H. Thieme,
Minutemen,
Talk Talk,
Electric Prunes,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Victims,
Eric Dolphy,
Magma,
Agent Orange,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Peter & Gordon,
Inner City,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bobby Womack,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Flash Fearless,
Gang of Four,
Gang Green,
Dark Day,
Blancmange,
The Neon Judgement,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Crash Course in Science,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pharoah Sanders,
Tommy Roe,
JFA,
Lower 48,
Pantytec,
The Dead C,
Ultimate Spinach,
Jacob Miller,
Camberwell Now,
Simply Red,
Funky Four + One,
Roxy Music,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
a-ha,
The Invisible,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Tim Buckley,
Chris & Cosey,
Crispian St. Peters,
Swell Maps,
The Alarm Clocks,
Nick Fraelich,
Toni Rubio,
The Grass Roots,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Laurel Aitken,
Scion,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Khruangbin,
Supertramp,
Howard Jones,
The Cure,
Kenny Larkin,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.