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 Iraq and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Woodstock.
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 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 Donald Fagen 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 Terry Callier to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Residents. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Byron Stingily record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dawn Penn record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Big Daddy Kane,
Con Funk Shun,
The Sound,
Minny Pops,
Sonny Sharrock,
Marshall Jefferson,
Marcia Griffiths,
Basic Channel,
Byron Stingily,
Lakeside,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Music Machine,
Prince Buster,
John Holt,
Dennis Brown,
Kayak,
Absolute Body Control,
Neu!,
Nik Kershaw,
Cymande,
David Axelrod,
The Walker Brothers,
Anakelly,
D'Angelo,
The Knickerbockers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Stooges,
Erykah Badu,
June of 44,
Carl Craig,
Parry Music,
Eric Dolphy,
Skriet,
DJ Style,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Cheater Slicks,
The Evens,
The Slits,
Camouflage,
Marc Almond,
China Crisis,
Section 25,
Barrington Levy,
Bobby Sherman,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Dorothy Ashby,
Black Flag,
Make Up,
MC5,
Jerry's Kids,
Bobby Womack,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roger Hodgson,
Black Moon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Cowsills,
Soft Machine,
Gang Green,
Scratch Acid,
Cal Tjader,
The Alarm Clocks,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.