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 Lithuania and from Jakarta.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sixth Finger to the punk 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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk 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 jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Howard Jones,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Velvet Underground,
Scion,
Metal Thangz,
Freddie Wadling,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Slits,
Lalann,
the Swans,
The New Christs,
Traffic Nightmare,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Blackbyrds,
Dark Day,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mars,
EPMD,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
T.S.O.L.,
Minnie Riperton,
Khruangbin,
Warren Ellis,
Buzzcocks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Alton Ellis,
Eden Ahbez,
Nirvana,
Eric Dolphy,
Trumans Water,
Chris & Cosey,
K-Klass,
Morten Harket,
the Soft Cell,
Eddi Front,
The Last Poets,
a-ha,
Delon & Dalcan,
Panda Bear,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Crispy Ambulance,
Harpers Bizarre,
E-Dancer,
Monks,
The Golliwogs,
CMW,
Marine Girls,
Absolute Body Control,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eurythmics,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Nils Olav,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Crime,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Stereo Dub,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Arcadia,
D'Angelo,
The Fugs,
Ralphi Rosario,
Zapp, Zapp, Zapp, Zapp.
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.