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 Mauritania and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 London and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Lower 48 to the rap 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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Soul II Soul,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Remains,
Aswad,
Lakeside,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Mantronix,
Buzzcocks,
B.T. Express,
Sandy B,
Harpers Bizarre,
cv313,
Terrestrial Tones,
John Cale,
Talk Talk,
Warren Ellis,
Procol Harum,
Delon & Dalcan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Joy Division,
Can,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Trumans Water,
Mary Jane Girls,
D'Angelo,
Jerry's Kids,
the Bar-Kays,
Matthew Halsall,
Massinfluence,
Negative Approach,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
DNA,
Radio Birdman,
The Music Machine,
Lower 48,
Average White Band,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Aural Exciters,
Jacob Miller,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Black Pus,
The Young Rascals,
Agitation Free,
The Golliwogs,
Jesper Dahlback,
Roxette,
The Mojo Men,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pierre Henry,
Johnny Clarke,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Dennis Brown,
Smog,
Arcadia,
Electric Prunes,
Barry Ungar,
The Litter,
Morten Harket,
Funkadelic,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.