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 Albania and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 ABC to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Eric B and Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Buzzcocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gladiators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Hood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Radiohead,
Accadde A,
Pharoah Sanders,
Wolf Eyes,
The Mojo Men,
EPMD,
Graham Central Station,
Camouflage,
Nico,
Anakelly,
Vladislav Delay,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lightning Bolt,
Sonny Sharrock,
Talk Talk,
Magma,
Terry Callier,
Robert Hood,
Isaac Hayes,
Shoche,
DJ Sneak,
The Young Rascals,
The Dave Clark Five,
a-ha,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Pylon,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Busters,
Gregory Isaacs,
the Sonics,
Lebanon Hanover,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Goldenarms,
U.S. Maple,
The Saints,
The Remains,
Black Flag,
The Star Department,
The Durutti Column,
Bob Dylan,
Jacob Miller,
The Neon Judgement,
Loose Ends,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Adolescents,
Shuggie Otis,
David McCallum,
Half Japanese,
the Association,
Oblivians,
The Detroit Cobras,
Cybotron,
Livin' Joy,
Eve St. Jones,
Gang of Four,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Donny Hathaway,
Danielle Patucci,
Kenny Larkin,
Gong,
Los Fastidios,
The Happenings,
Wire, Wire, Wire, Wire.
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.