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 San Marino and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Move to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers,
Black Sheep,
Graham Central Station,
The Leaves,
Rotary Connection,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Massinfluence,
Deakin,
The Zeros,
The Flesh Eaters,
Magma,
Minor Threat,
The Golliwogs,
Eric Copeland,
The Pretty Things,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Joe Smooth,
Letta Mbulu,
The Human League,
F. McDonald,
Flipper,
Yazoo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pylon,
Heaven 17,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eurythmics,
The Sound,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Goldenarms,
The Tremeloes,
Oneida,
Shoche,
Todd Terry,
Gabor Szabo,
Eli Mardock,
MC5,
Harmonia,
U.S. Maple,
Tears for Fears,
The Fire Engines,
Amon Düül II,
Groovy Waters,
Eden Ahbez,
Little Man,
Average White Band,
The Move,
Rufus Thomas,
Smog,
The Divine Comedy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Buckinghams,
Main Source,
Alphaville,
Quando Quango,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Stereo Dub,
a-ha,
Altered Images,
Ralphi Rosario,
Donny Hathaway,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.