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 Ukraine and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 theremin 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 Los Fastidios to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All Newcleus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson 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?
Au Pairs,
Throbbing Gristle,
Suburban Knight,
The Real Kids,
Angry Samoans,
Los Fastidios,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The J.B.'s,
This Heat,
Simply Red,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Judy Mowatt,
Livin' Joy,
Barry Ungar,
Grauzone,
Urselle,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Youth Brigade,
Aaron Thompson,
Groovy Waters,
Cybotron,
Fear,
Loose Ends,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Yusef Lateef,
Piero Umiliani,
The Misunderstood,
Nils Olav,
Thee Headcoats,
Deakin,
Vladislav Delay,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fela Kuti,
Royal Trux,
Newcleus,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pussy Galore,
Half Japanese,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lebanon Hanover,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Martian,
Heaven 17,
Tomorrow,
Skriet,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Zapp,
The Names,
Morten Harket,
Bill Wells,
Lucky Dragons,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Dorothy Ashby,
Iggy Pop,
China Crisis,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.