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 Cape Verde and from Edmonton.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Houston.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Names to the dance 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 The Names. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Evens,
Dual Sessions,
E-Dancer,
Suburban Knight,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Robert Görl,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bobby Womack,
Drive Like Jehu,
Alison Limerick,
Toni Rubio,
The Alarm Clocks,
Con Funk Shun,
Joyce Sims,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rosa Yemen,
Matthew Bourne,
Freddie Wadling,
Marmalade,
Excepter,
the Bar-Kays,
Aural Exciters,
Essential Logic,
Fat Boys,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Donny Hathaway,
Warsaw,
Boz Scaggs,
The Count Five,
Mr. Review,
Television Personalities,
The Zeros,
Minny Pops,
Nirvana,
The Leaves,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Blake Baxter,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Raincoats,
In Retrospect,
Lee Hazlewood,
Magma,
Grauzone,
The Monochrome Set,
Connie Case,
Amazonics,
Sällskapet,
John Holt,
Tomorrow,
The Wake,
Nick Fraelich,
Animal Collective,
Charles Mingus,
Lungfish,
Basic Channel,
Deadbeat,
EPMD,
Godley & Creme,
Wings,
Oneida,
The Gories,
The Doors,
Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron.
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.