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 Eritrea and from Tehran.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Althea and Donna. All the underground hits.
All Eve St. Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Martian 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 synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Man Eating Sloth,
Roy Ayers,
Fela Kuti,
The Gories,
Slick Rick,
The Knickerbockers,
Guru Guru,
Terry Callier,
Marshall Jefferson,
Skaos,
Marine Girls,
E-Dancer,
Erykah Badu,
Sister Nancy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Grass Roots,
Ten City,
Agitation Free,
Gabor Szabo,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Barbara Tucker,
B.T. Express,
The Red Krayola,
Basic Channel,
Lebanon Hanover,
Flipper,
Little Man,
Connie Case,
Joe Finger,
Robert Wyatt,
John Coltrane,
Andrew Hill,
Easy Going,
Deadbeat,
Neil Young,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sixth Finger,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Sound,
Popol Vuh,
Spandau Ballet,
Jacques Brel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
OOIOO,
The Golliwogs,
Al Stewart,
the Normal,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Motorama,
the Soft Cell,
The Vogues,
The Wake,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Raincoats,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Saccharine Trust,
The Electric Prunes,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Dave Clark Five,
Alice Coltrane,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.