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 Grenada and from Seoul.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 Japan to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Moss Icon. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marcia Griffiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gichy Dan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lyres,
Marc Almond,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gong,
Lalo Schifrin,
Barrington Levy,
The Mojo Men,
Fad Gadget,
Max Romeo,
Livin' Joy,
Stiv Bators,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Duran Duran,
The Invisible,
F. McDonald,
Ultra Naté,
Skriet,
Hasil Adkins,
The Alarm Clocks,
Delon & Dalcan,
Los Fastidios,
8 Eyed Spy,
K-Klass,
The Birthday Party,
Robert Görl,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kenny Larkin,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Oblivians,
Rakim,
Nick Fraelich,
Pagans,
The Blues Magoos,
Lungfish,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Arcadia,
Eden Ahbez,
the Soft Cell,
Bad Manners,
Tom Boy,
U.S. Maple,
Clear Light,
Icehouse,
Jawbox,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Blancmange,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Divine Comedy,
Angry Samoans,
The Motions,
Flipper,
Blake Baxter,
Wolf Eyes,
Don Cherry,
Von Mondo,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bill Near,
Frankie Knuckles,
Glenn Branca,
X-101,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.