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 Greece and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 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 Eve St. Jones to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sällskapet,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Grass Roots,
The Fall,
The Stooges,
Aaron Thompson,
Flipper,
John Lydon,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jacob Miller,
Symarip,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pet Shop Boys,
Althea and Donna,
H. Thieme,
The Blues Magoos,
Joy Division,
Khruangbin,
Television,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Underground Resistance,
Soft Cell,
EPMD,
Hasil Adkins,
Wolf Eyes,
the Sonics,
Technova,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bad Manners,
Nick Fraelich,
Lalann,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Dirtbombs,
Rhythm & Sound,
X-101,
Sam Rivers,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Names,
Desert Stars,
Niagra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Brothers Johnson,
Tomorrow,
Lightning Bolt,
Little Man,
Swell Maps,
Sonic Youth,
Rod Modell,
Rotary Connection,
Iggy Pop,
Yazoo,
John Coltrane,
Faraquet,
Pylon,
Schoolly D,
Fatback Band,
JFA,
10cc,
Hoover,
Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw.
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.