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 Jamaica and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Doors to the rock 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 8 Eyed Spy. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a World's Most record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Cale,
Monolake,
the Normal,
Au Pairs,
Derrick May,
Newcleus,
Sällskapet,
Gang Starr,
Max Romeo,
Erasure,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
X-Ray Spex,
Agent Orange,
Nick Fraelich,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
World's Most,
Sugar Minott,
Erykah Badu,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ultra Naté,
Slave,
AZ,
Scrapy,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The United States of America,
Rhythm & Sound,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
F. McDonald,
Michelle Simonal,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Nik Kershaw,
Mad Mike,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Victims,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Blake Baxter,
Section 25,
The J.B.'s,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Durutti Column,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sparks,
Lyres,
Funkadelic,
Cybotron,
Patti Smith,
Peter & Gordon,
H. Thieme,
the Sonics,
Boredoms,
Panda Bear,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Franke,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Music Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Happenings,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Blues Magoos,
Steve Hackett,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.