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 Bangladesh and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Tehran and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shuggie Otis 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tomorrow,
Dorothy Ashby,
Fluxion,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eddi Front,
Scan 7,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rosa Yemen,
Ten City,
Gichy Dan,
Matthew Bourne,
Eli Mardock,
Crash Course in Science,
Ituana,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nico,
Lebanon Hanover,
ABBA,
48th St. Collective,
David Axelrod,
Stiv Bators,
The Slackers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lee Hazlewood,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kevin Saunderson,
Curtis Mayfield,
Marine Girls,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Traffic Nightmare,
Chris & Cosey,
Marc Almond,
Grauzone,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
UT,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Basic Channel,
FM Einheit,
Cameo,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Saints,
T.S.O.L.,
10cc,
The Evens,
Connie Case,
Porter Ricks,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Mars,
Jerry's Kids,
Terrestrial Tones,
cv313,
Mandrill,
Minny Pops,
Urselle,
Sparks,
Angry Samoans,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bob Dylan,
The Wake,
Tommy Roe,
Scrapy,
Darondo,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.