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 Ethiopia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 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 Erasure to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gong. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Tremeloes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mary Jane Girls,
Lalann,
Oneida,
Henry Cow,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Litter,
Unwound,
The Cure,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Tom Boy,
Ultimate Spinach,
Cluster,
The United States of America,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Marvin Gaye,
Tres Demented,
Dennis Brown,
UT,
Ponytail,
Swell Maps,
Mark Hollis,
Althea and Donna,
Bootsy Collins,
The Shadows of Knight,
Amazonics,
Avey Tare,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Freddie Wadling,
Severed Heads,
Scrapy,
Pantytec,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Anakelly,
Black Sheep,
Marmalade,
Donald Byrd,
The Index,
Sparks,
The Sound,
Camberwell Now,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
the Sonics,
Bob Dylan,
The Walker Brothers,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ken Boothe,
Ituana,
The Zeros,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Martian,
Peter and Kerry,
Das Ding,
Mandrill,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap 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.