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 Italy and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Yusef Lateef to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Sheep,
Erasure,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bobby Byrd,
Arthur Verocai,
Throbbing Gristle,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Animal Collective,
Erykah Badu,
Al Stewart,
Marine Girls,
Flipper,
Mandrill,
Porter Ricks,
Don Cherry,
The Skatalites,
Japan,
Mission of Burma,
Scan 7,
Gastr Del Sol,
Arcadia,
Bill Wells,
Radiopuhelimet,
Carl Craig,
Inner City,
Quando Quango,
Section 25,
Q and Not U,
Tears for Fears,
Skarface,
Gregory Isaacs,
Soulsonic Force,
The Misunderstood,
Stetsasonic,
The J.B.'s,
Public Image Ltd.,
Brass Construction,
Average White Band,
Neil Young,
Absolute Body Control,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Tomorrow,
kango's stein massive,
Popol Vuh,
Pet Shop Boys,
Brick,
Agent Orange,
Alice Coltrane,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fat Boys,
Roxette,
One Last Wish,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Massinfluence,
The Moleskins,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Techniques,
Reagan Youth,
Funkadelic,
Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners.
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.