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 Mozambique and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 808 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 Matthew Halsall 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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pussy Galore,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Con Funk Shun,
Public Image Ltd.,
Public Enemy,
The Searchers,
Erykah Badu,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Siglo XX,
The Beau Brummels,
Popol Vuh,
The Grass Roots,
Basic Channel,
Aural Exciters,
Niagra,
Negative Approach,
Idris Muhammad,
The Shadows of Knight,
Gang Green,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Von Mondo,
The Modern Lovers,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Gang Starr,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Minor Threat,
The Kinks,
Banda Bassotti,
Matthew Halsall,
Gong,
Harmonia,
U.S. Maple,
Colin Newman,
Piero Umiliani,
Stockholm Monsters,
In Retrospect,
Donny Hathaway,
Magazine,
Prince Buster,
E-Dancer,
Bizarre Inc.,
Black Moon,
Cameo,
Procol Harum,
Massinfluence,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Alphaville,
Rekid,
Sarah Menescal,
The Saints,
The Invisible,
Todd Rundgren,
Marc Almond,
L. Decosne,
The Doobie Brothers,
Tres Demented,
Darondo,
Smog,
Pole,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.