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 Guatemala and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 marimba 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 Jerry's Kids to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ultravox. All the underground hits.
All The Durutti Column tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Certain Ratio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
Gong,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Morten Harket,
Sixth Finger,
Monks,
The Red Krayola,
John Holt,
Black Bananas,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
the Sonics,
Aural Exciters,
Aloha Tigers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Curtis Mayfield,
Harmonia,
Soft Machine,
Severed Heads,
Girls At Our Best!,
Quadrant,
Roxy Music,
Nik Kershaw,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pet Shop Boys,
Unwound,
X-Ray Spex,
Deepchord,
Cameo,
The Velvet Underground,
Josef K,
Marine Girls,
The Neon Judgement,
Cheater Slicks,
Connie Case,
Dave Gahan,
Carl Craig,
D'Angelo,
Dennis Brown,
OOIOO,
Yaz,
Marshall Jefferson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Country Teasers,
Ponytail,
Essential Logic,
Bobby Womack,
Infiniti,
Minutemen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Associates,
Nation of Ulysses,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fatback Band,
Monolake,
Agent Orange,
Roy Ayers,
June of 44,
This Heat,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Reuben Wilson,
The Doors,
Spoonie Gee,
Ronnie Foster,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.