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 Indonesia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Janne Schatter to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantytec,
June of 44,
Morten Harket,
The Mummies,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lou Reed,
R.M.O.,
Jawbox,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Masters at Work,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Vainqueur,
Alison Limerick,
Minnie Riperton,
Guru Guru,
The Count Five,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bill Near,
Grauzone,
Basic Channel,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Negative Approach,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
This Heat,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sun City Girls,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Terrestrial Tones,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
OOIOO,
The New Christs,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Associates,
Fatback Band,
Symarip,
Lou Christie,
Panda Bear,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Nico,
Juan Atkins,
The Gories,
Marcia Griffiths,
Delta 5,
Funky Four + One,
KRS-One,
Sun Ra,
Simply Red,
Saccharine Trust,
John Foxx,
Avey Tare,
Black Sheep,
Erasure,
Gichy Dan,
Loose Ends,
Duran Duran,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Second Layer,
Shuggie Otis,
Tropical Tobacco,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.