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 Costa Rica and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Sao Paulo.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Simply Red to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Con Funk Shun,
Pole,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Scott Walker,
The J.B.'s,
Crime,
Icehouse,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Barry Ungar,
Scion,
R.M.O.,
Trumans Water,
Soul Sonic Force,
Spandau Ballet,
Ultra Naté,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Trojans,
Roy Ayers,
David Bowie,
Black Sheep,
E-Dancer,
The Buckinghams,
Procol Harum,
Nas,
Hasil Adkins,
Dennis Brown,
Robert Hood,
Archie Shepp,
Slick Rick,
FM Einheit,
The Gap Band,
Livin' Joy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Star Department,
Black Bananas,
Deadbeat,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Jandek,
EPMD,
John Lydon,
Colin Newman,
The Black Dice,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sugar Minott,
Throbbing Gristle,
Monolake,
Jeru the Damaja,
Man Eating Sloth,
Siglo XX,
Supertramp,
Lakeside,
Echospace,
Stetsasonic,
Thee Headcoats,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Tremeloes,
Laurel Aitken,
Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears.
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.