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 Antigua and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the marimba 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 Half Japanese to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Zeros,
UT,
Eden Ahbez,
Sarah Menescal,
Don Cherry,
Lou Christie,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Soft Cell,
Maleditus Sound,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Grass Roots,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Tubeway Army,
Lalann,
Tom Boy,
Jeff Mills,
Flamin' Groovies,
John Lydon,
Erykah Badu,
The Misunderstood,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Derrick May,
Hasil Adkins,
Morten Harket,
Skriet,
Vladislav Delay,
Kurtis Blow,
Sandy B,
OOIOO,
Minnie Riperton,
Crime,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Dead C,
Marshall Jefferson,
Barbara Tucker,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Robert Wyatt,
Eurythmics,
Duran Duran,
Audionom,
The Happenings,
Radio Birdman,
Minutemen,
Nico,
The Associates,
Marc Almond,
Tears for Fears,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Frankie Knuckles,
Infiniti,
Radiopuhelimet,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Interpol,
Half Japanese,
Echospace,
Dave Gahan,
Ludus,
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow.
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.