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 Georgia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABBA,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joey Negro,
Connie Case,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Boz Scaggs,
Ponytail,
Urselle,
Jerry's Kids,
Grey Daturas,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Flesh Eaters,
Gong,
Glenn Branca,
Glambeats Corp.,
Country Teasers,
Guru Guru,
Little Man,
Goldenarms,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Gories,
Desert Stars,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sister Nancy,
The Wake,
Das Ding,
Rosa Yemen,
Massinfluence,
The Angels of Light,
the Normal,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Radio Birdman,
Panda Bear,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
CMW,
Whodini,
The Zeros,
Archie Shepp,
Television Personalities,
Half Japanese,
Babytalk,
Andrew Hill,
Fluxion,
The Associates,
Deepchord,
The Toasters,
Black Flag,
The Skatalites,
Delon & Dalcan,
Henry Cow,
Animal Collective,
The J.B.'s,
The Misunderstood,
Newcleus,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Buckinghams,
Albert Ayler,
Groovy Waters,
The Pop Group,
Brass Construction,
Kayak, Kayak, Kayak, Kayak.
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.