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 Uruguay and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Black Bananas to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Skatalites record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
KRS-One,
Traffic Nightmare,
Television Personalities,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Gladiators,
Lyres,
Ralphi Rosario,
Yusef Lateef,
Buzzcocks,
Brass Construction,
Crooked Eye,
The Neon Judgement,
Max Romeo,
Prince Buster,
The Black Dice,
MC5,
Neil Young,
Terry Callier,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Stooges,
Funkadelic,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Electric Prunes,
Malaria!,
Johnny Clarke,
T.S.O.L.,
Urselle,
Essential Logic,
Lou Christie,
Slick Rick,
Icehouse,
Wire,
Surgeon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Hoover,
Maurizio,
Roxette,
John Foxx,
Grey Daturas,
Minnie Riperton,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Quadrant,
Q65,
Bluetip,
X-Ray Spex,
JFA,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sun Ra,
Gerry Rafferty,
A Certain Ratio,
Carl Craig,
Cymande,
Marvin Gaye,
Jesper Dahlback,
Robert Hood,
kango's stein massive,
Lungfish,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dennis Brown,
China Crisis,
Junior Murvin,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.