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 Indonesia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Neu! to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Radio Birdman. All the underground hits.
All 8 Eyed Spy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most 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 linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Porter Ricks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
The Evens,
Reagan Youth,
Gerry Rafferty,
Eric Copeland,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Pop Group,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sound Behaviour,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Magazine,
Gong,
Easy Going,
Harmonia,
Malaria!,
The Count Five,
Tres Demented,
Unwound,
The Electric Prunes,
June Days,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Piero Umiliani,
The Sonics,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wire,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ossler,
Unrelated Segments,
Wasted Youth,
Nas,
Davy DMX,
Fear,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
R.M.O.,
Pere Ubu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Black Moon,
Rakim,
Hashim,
Soft Machine,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Roxette,
Minor Threat,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Doors,
Robert Hood,
Funky Four + One,
The Monks,
The Cowsills,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Modern Lovers,
Todd Rundgren,
Ten City,
Rotary Connection,
Ronnie Foster,
La Düsseldorf,
ABBA,
Marvin Gaye,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
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.