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 Zimbabwe and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 rhodes 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 OOIOO to the grime 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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All The Young Rascals tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mummies 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Curtis Mayfield,
Mad Mike,
X-Ray Spex,
Boogie Down Productions,
Television,
Peter & Gordon,
Eli Mardock,
Gil Scott Heron,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sarah Menescal,
Circle Jerks,
Frankie Knuckles,
Eric Dolphy,
Scratch Acid,
Bill Wells,
Hasil Adkins,
Joe Smooth,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
cv313,
Eurythmics,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Barracudas,
Scion,
Anthony Braxton,
Clear Light,
Erykah Badu,
Bootsy Collins,
Kerri Chandler,
Girls At Our Best!,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Black Dice,
The J.B.'s,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ituana,
Cameo,
Easy Going,
PIL,
Henry Cow,
Animal Collective,
Chris Corsano,
Skriet,
Con Funk Shun,
John Cale,
Lebanon Hanover,
Joe Finger,
The Monochrome Set,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Boz Scaggs,
The Fugs,
OOIOO,
The Human League,
David McCallum,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Shadows of Knight,
Von Mondo,
Rotary Connection,
Ash Ra Tempel,
John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon.
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.