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 Cameroon and from Houston.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum 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 World's Most to the disco 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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All The Moleskins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rites of Spring,
Deakin,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Underground Resistance,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Walker Brothers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Wire,
Newcleus,
the Association,
Jawbox,
Vainqueur,
Organ,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bootsy Collins,
Shoche,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sam Rivers,
The Trojans,
Harry Pussy,
Glambeats Corp.,
Fluxion,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Minnie Riperton,
Quando Quango,
The Blackbyrds,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Q65,
Suicide,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sun City Girls,
Nico,
Youth Brigade,
Warsaw,
Brick,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
James White and The Blacks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Doors,
Yusef Lateef,
Stetsasonic,
The Black Dice,
The Leaves,
Rotary Connection,
The Saints,
Todd Rundgren,
Von Mondo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Moleskins,
D'Angelo,
Intrusion,
Desert Stars,
Yaz,
Al Stewart,
Kenny Larkin,
The Offenders,
Colin Newman,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Peter and Kerry,
Kool Moe Dee,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.