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 Nigeria and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Matthew Bourne to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Desert Stars. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lafayette Afro Rock Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oppenheimer Analysis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Mandrill,
Tomorrow,
Ten City,
Swans,
Yusef Lateef,
The Standells,
The Moleskins,
Groovy Waters,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
X-102,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Public Image Ltd.,
Judy Mowatt,
The Vogues,
Junior Murvin,
Neu!,
Scratch Acid,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Idris Muhammad,
Supertramp,
Negative Approach,
Country Teasers,
The Evens,
Joensuu 1685,
Vainqueur,
the Fania All-Stars,
John Foxx,
T. Rex,
Television,
DJ Sneak,
Au Pairs,
The Index,
Lee Hazlewood,
Johnny Clarke,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Drexciya,
Nik Kershaw,
Hardrive,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Funky Four + One,
Carl Craig,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bronski Beat,
the Bar-Kays,
Amazonics,
Ituana,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sister Nancy,
China Crisis,
Radio Birdman,
The Smiths,
Janne Schatter,
Minor Threat,
Michelle Simonal,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Yaz,
Leonard Cohen,
Barrington Levy,
Howard Jones,
Faraquet,
CMW,
Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee.
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.