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 Qatar and from Tehran.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 snare 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 Sun City Girls to the punk 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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Selector Dub Narcotic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick May 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Electric Prunes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Metal Thangz,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lucky Dragons,
Roger Hodgson,
Donny Hathaway,
D'Angelo,
Mark Hollis,
the Association,
Roxy Music,
Bobby Womack,
Gang Green,
The Count Five,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Icehouse,
8 Eyed Spy,
Deakin,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Mad Mike,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Robert Wyatt,
Ultra Naté,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gerry Rafferty,
H. Thieme,
Dual Sessions,
Chrome,
The Star Department,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Oblivians,
The Fortunes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dawn Penn,
Nico,
The Doobie Brothers,
Rekid,
Yazoo,
Max Romeo,
Bauhaus,
Ralphi Rosario,
Nils Olav,
The Fugs,
Darondo,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Vogues,
Average White Band,
Masters at Work,
Khruangbin,
Sam Rivers,
Eric Dolphy,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sight & Sound,
Lalann,
Iggy Pop,
Charles Mingus,
The Tremeloes,
Skarface,
The Litter,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.