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 Fiji and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 marimba 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 Chris & Cosey to the crunk 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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Graham Central Station record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
Lightning Bolt,
Organ,
The Victims,
Dorothy Ashby,
Max Romeo,
The Barracudas,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sun City Girls,
Joyce Sims,
Cameo,
Soft Machine,
Fluxion,
The Blues Magoos,
Subhumans,
Easy Going,
The Evens,
Tomorrow,
Bobby Byrd,
Thompson Twins,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Monolake,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Yellowson,
Thee Headcoats,
Fear,
The Velvet Underground,
One Last Wish,
Carl Craig,
Public Image Ltd.,
Panda Bear,
Scrapy,
June of 44,
Excepter,
The Remains,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Procol Harum,
The Busters,
DNA,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Dennis Brown,
Lou Reed,
Harmonia,
Anakelly,
The Leaves,
Colin Newman,
Mad Mike,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Angels of Light,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Zapp,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Chris Corsano,
Soul II Soul,
Tropical Tobacco,
Slave,
Kayak,
Boz Scaggs,
Nils Olav,
Letta Mbulu,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange.
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.