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 Argentina and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Tehran.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Wake to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sound,
Rotary Connection,
Hot Snakes,
Peter and Kerry,
Radiohead,
The Stooges,
Animal Collective,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Velvet Underground,
DNA,
Ornette Coleman,
Silicon Teens,
Frankie Knuckles,
Saccharine Trust,
Byron Stingily,
Funky Four + One,
KRS-One,
Patti Smith,
Soulsonic Force,
Brass Construction,
The Vogues,
Hashim,
Popol Vuh,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Dave Gahan,
Wolf Eyes,
Roxy Music,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Blackbyrds,
Panda Bear,
Jimmy McGriff,
Glenn Branca,
Joy Division,
The Golliwogs,
Robert Wyatt,
Alphaville,
Babytalk,
Cameo,
Todd Rundgren,
Cluster,
Niagra,
Steve Hackett,
This Heat,
Freddie Wadling,
Banda Bassotti,
Flash Fearless,
Bob Dylan,
John Cale,
Man Eating Sloth,
Crash Course in Science,
The Count Five,
Youth Brigade,
Public Enemy,
Fad Gadget,
Stereo Dub,
Bluetip,
Pole,
Boredoms,
Charles Mingus,
Au Pairs,
Visage,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.