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 Niger and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Gun Club to the jazz 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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slave record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ronan,
Spandau Ballet,
The Blackbyrds,
Mo-Dettes,
Todd Terry,
Letta Mbulu,
The Star Department,
Mark Hollis,
Zapp,
The Knickerbockers,
T.S.O.L.,
The Real Kids,
The Litter,
The Trojans,
Steve Hackett,
Soulsonic Force,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sugar Minott,
Deakin,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
cv313,
Sarah Menescal,
Heaven 17,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pagans,
Japan,
Royal Trux,
The Slackers,
Chrome,
Gong,
JFA,
Boz Scaggs,
Echospace,
Sam Rivers,
Au Pairs,
Adolescents,
The Index,
Josef K,
PIL,
Robert Wyatt,
Tubeway Army,
Jacob Miller,
the Association,
Stetsasonic,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Todd Rundgren,
Cluster,
Mars,
Jeff Lynne,
Pierre Henry,
Lightning Bolt,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Faust,
June Days,
Kool Moe Dee,
Henry Cow,
The American Breed,
Prince Buster,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.