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 Serbia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 LL Cool J to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All F. McDonald tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Green record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Youth Brigade,
Symarip,
Q and Not U,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Eric Dolphy,
Livin' Joy,
Mad Mike,
Fatback Band,
Aswad,
Big Daddy Kane,
Young Marble Giants,
The Neon Judgement,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Q65,
The Standells,
Yazoo,
Jeff Mills,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
New York Dolls,
Andrew Hill,
The Smoke,
Gang Starr,
Zero Boys,
Gang of Four,
Rakim,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Saccharine Trust,
The Golliwogs,
Archie Shepp,
Suburban Knight,
Adolescents,
Rotary Connection,
Rites of Spring,
OOIOO,
Scratch Acid,
Dorothy Ashby,
Banda Bassotti,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sonny Sharrock,
Black Flag,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Magma,
KRS-One,
Camberwell Now,
Wolf Eyes,
Nirvana,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Babytalk,
Porter Ricks,
Stetsasonic,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Victims,
Chris Corsano,
Qualms,
Donny Hathaway,
Jawbox,
Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett.
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.