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 Mozambique and from Bologna.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Vladislav Delay to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Lydon 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Real Kids,
Alison Limerick,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Schoolly D,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bush Tetras,
Brothers Johnson,
Dark Day,
Ultravox,
Quando Quango,
The Dirtbombs,
Steve Hackett,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Fad Gadget,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Todd Rundgren,
Boz Scaggs,
Mad Mike,
Heaven 17,
Patti Smith,
Mandrill,
Fear,
David Bowie,
Gregory Isaacs,
Negative Approach,
Kerrie Biddell,
Motorama,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Robert Hood,
Panda Bear,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Gang Starr,
Bobby Womack,
Drexciya,
Bobby Byrd,
Supertramp,
Johnny Clarke,
Marine Girls,
Barrington Levy,
Glambeats Corp.,
AZ,
The Beau Brummels,
Section 25,
Kaleidoscope,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Move,
Amazonics,
Peter & Gordon,
Scan 7,
Loose Ends,
cv313,
Y Pants,
Sugar Minott,
Brass Construction,
Cluster,
Angry Samoans,
Curtis Mayfield,
Radio Birdman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.