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 Peru and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 güiro 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 Soft Machine to the jazz 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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Don Cherry,
EPMD,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Fortunes,
Eden Ahbez,
Camberwell Now,
Essential Logic,
Monolake,
Cheater Slicks,
Slave,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bobby Womack,
Amon Düül II,
Magazine,
New Order,
Bang On A Can,
Clear Light,
In Retrospect,
Radiopuhelimet,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
DJ Style,
The Martian,
The Selecter,
Electric Prunes,
Crime,
Pierre Henry,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Angels of Light,
Angry Samoans,
Kayak,
Nation of Ulysses,
Tomorrow,
Connie Case,
Isaac Hayes,
The Trojans,
Tears for Fears,
Marmalade,
The Litter,
Stiv Bators,
The Residents,
Carl Craig,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Masters at Work,
Fugazi,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
E-Dancer,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
MDC,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
New Age Steppers,
The Moleskins,
Arcadia,
Simply Red,
Joe Finger,
Sugar Minott,
Girls At Our Best!,
Basic Channel,
the Germs,
Nils Olav,
Fluxion,
The Cramps,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.