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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angry Samoans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Gun Club,
Arcadia,
The Star Department,
the Human League,
The Gap Band,
Faraquet,
World's Most,
Reagan Youth,
Negative Approach,
Index,
Sonic Youth,
Matthew Halsall,
Eve St. Jones,
Peter and Kerry,
Clear Light,
The Blackbyrds,
Moss Icon,
Tubeway Army,
The Neon Judgement,
Sarah Menescal,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Davy DMX,
Shuggie Otis,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Vogues,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Half Japanese,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Man Parrish,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Buckinghams,
Ultra Naté,
Barry Ungar,
Hot Snakes,
Desert Stars,
OOIOO,
48th St. Collective,
Unwound,
Throbbing Gristle,
Agent Orange,
Cheater Slicks,
Hashim,
Jacob Miller,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Fire Engines,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Mark Hollis,
Minor Threat,
10cc,
Cecil Taylor,
Basic Channel,
Donny Hathaway,
Saccharine Trust,
Average White Band,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Shoche,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gil Scott Heron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.