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 South Africa and from Calgary.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 New Age Steppers to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 June of 44. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skriet,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Drexciya,
Parry Music,
Saccharine Trust,
Althea and Donna,
Liliput,
Eve St. Jones,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Black Flag,
Tears for Fears,
Joensuu 1685,
Lightning Bolt,
Ludus,
The Fugs,
Wasted Youth,
Spandau Ballet,
Stiv Bators,
Depeche Mode,
Cybotron,
The Tremeloes,
Terry Callier,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Slave,
Junior Murvin,
Hasil Adkins,
Mary Jane Girls,
Steve Hackett,
Derrick Morgan,
Thompson Twins,
Maleditus Sound,
The Vogues,
John Holt,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Anthony Braxton,
Ohio Players,
H. Thieme,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Monks,
Bill Near,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Nils Olav,
Donny Hathaway,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The New Christs,
Joyce Sims,
Brand Nubian,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Jeru the Damaja,
Aural Exciters,
Derrick May,
Sarah Menescal,
Adolescents,
Archie Shepp,
Wings,
Nation of Ulysses,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
AZ,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.