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 Indonesia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 mellotron 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 UT to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Masters at Work. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Schoolly D,
Livin' Joy,
These Immortal Souls,
DJ Style,
Dual Sessions,
X-101,
Roger Hodgson,
Eric Copeland,
New Age Steppers,
Zapp,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Thee Headcoats,
Moebius,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Amon Düül,
Marvin Gaye,
Pulsallama,
Black Pus,
Flipper,
Bill Near,
Infiniti,
Stiv Bators,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bootsy Collins,
Ken Boothe,
Sarah Menescal,
John Foxx,
Glambeats Corp.,
F. McDonald,
DJ Sneak,
Scott Walker,
Roxette,
CMW,
Loose Ends,
Organ,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Rakim,
Soul II Soul,
Laurel Aitken,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Scientists,
Bauhaus,
Smog,
Joensuu 1685,
Sight & Sound,
Sound Behaviour,
Altered Images,
The Moody Blues,
Connie Case,
Symarip,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Darondo,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Fortunes,
Hasil Adkins,
Lakeside,
Charles Mingus,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sun Ra,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.