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 Macedonia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Soulsonic Force to the funk 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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Sonics 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Offenders,
Franke,
Audionom,
Yazoo,
Lungfish,
Rapeman,
Lindisfarne,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Technova,
Sixth Finger,
Hot Snakes,
Trumans Water,
Soft Machine,
Ash Ra Tempel,
David Axelrod,
Sonic Youth,
Fear,
Joe Smooth,
Shoche,
Tres Demented,
Wally Richardson,
Funky Four + One,
Quando Quango,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Letta Mbulu,
Zero Boys,
Au Pairs,
Jeru the Damaja,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jacques Brel,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
John Lydon,
Clear Light,
New Order,
Mark Hollis,
Talk Talk,
X-Ray Spex,
Minor Threat,
Matthew Halsall,
Skriet,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Brothers Johnson,
Ronan,
Bobby Byrd,
Black Sheep,
Gabor Szabo,
Fela Kuti,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Chrome,
Scratch Acid,
Chris Corsano,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Residents,
June Days,
Basic Channel,
The Skatalites,
Tears for Fears,
Maleditus Sound,
The Fall,
Khruangbin,
Moby Grape,
Blancmange, Blancmange, Blancmange, Blancmange.
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.