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 Denmark and from Manchester.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Das Ding to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Smog. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cheater Slicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Gladiators,
Reagan Youth,
Pantytec,
John Lydon,
Suicide,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Q65,
Kaleidoscope,
The Fortunes,
Terry Callier,
Mo-Dettes,
Banda Bassotti,
This Heat,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Camberwell Now,
The Smoke,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Howard Jones,
Dead Boys,
Ultra Naté,
Y Pants,
Dennis Brown,
Deadbeat,
Sarah Menescal,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Marc Almond,
Khruangbin,
Rhythm & Sound,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Negative Approach,
Bill Near,
Shuggie Otis,
Blossom Toes,
The Names,
Ultravox,
The Gap Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Outsiders,
Goldenarms,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Half Japanese,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Von Mondo,
Graham Central Station,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Skarface,
Yaz,
Toni Rubio,
Fugazi,
Steve Hackett,
The Barracudas,
Hasil Adkins,
Swans,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bad Manners,
Laurel Aitken,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Shoche, Shoche, Shoche, Shoche.
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.