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 Togo and from Philadelphia.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Hoover to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 sitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
Neil Young,
The Kinks,
Half Japanese,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Soul II Soul,
Roxette,
Inner City,
Pylon,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Rakim,
The Monochrome Set,
The Skatalites,
Thompson Twins,
Skaos,
Derrick Morgan,
Simply Red,
The Raincoats,
James White and The Blacks,
Monks,
Janne Schatter,
Fatback Band,
X-102,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Davy DMX,
Delta 5,
Amon Düül,
The Zeros,
Ituana,
Tears for Fears,
Buzzcocks,
Prince Buster,
Cluster,
Angry Samoans,
Urselle,
Todd Terry,
T. Rex,
Sonny Sharrock,
Aural Exciters,
Howard Jones,
The Fugs,
Bobby Byrd,
Goldenarms,
Fluxion,
Aaron Thompson,
The Moody Blues,
OOIOO,
Ice-T,
Bad Manners,
The Mummies,
Kurtis Blow,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Whodini,
Soft Cell,
Marcia Griffiths,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Count Five,
Terrestrial Tones,
Technova,
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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.