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 Libya and from Hong Kong.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 mellotron 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 Yellowson 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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Litter,
Groovy Waters,
Smog,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ohio Players,
The Buckinghams,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Metal Thangz,
The Star Department,
Khruangbin,
These Immortal Souls,
Babytalk,
Cluster,
Pole,
Lungfish,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sugar Minott,
MDC,
Johnny Clarke,
Minny Pops,
The Selecter,
Yaz,
Section 25,
Radiohead,
Matthew Halsall,
Joyce Sims,
Henry Cow,
OOIOO,
Ultravox,
Sonny Sharrock,
Pet Shop Boys,
New Order,
Brass Construction,
The Last Poets,
Mr. Review,
Todd Terry,
The Residents,
Nils Olav,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Gun Club,
Altered Images,
The Dead C,
Swans,
Bootsy Collins,
Roger Hodgson,
Alphaville,
Marmalade,
Mars,
Model 500,
Agitation Free,
Eden Ahbez,
Ralphi Rosario,
Scratch Acid,
Tim Buckley,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Severed Heads,
Cheater Slicks,
Bizarre Inc.,
Urselle,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.