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 South Africa and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 rhodes 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 Barclay James Harvest to the funk 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Minor Threat,
Ralphi Rosario,
Black Sheep,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Glenn Branca,
Gang Green,
Skriet,
The Saints,
Crash Course in Science,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Nas,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Robert Wyatt,
The Cowsills,
Subhumans,
Bauhaus,
Iggy Pop,
Reagan Youth,
Depeche Mode,
James White and The Blacks,
Unwound,
Simply Red,
Scan 7,
Crispian St. Peters,
Hashim,
Boogie Down Productions,
Excepter,
Procol Harum,
Connie Case,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Idris Muhammad,
The Pretty Things,
Tubeway Army,
Kool Moe Dee,
Wire,
Tears for Fears,
Young Marble Giants,
The Smoke,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Star Department,
Alphaville,
Silicon Teens,
Leonard Cohen,
The Barracudas,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gichy Dan,
Qualms,
Country Teasers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Maurizio,
Intrusion,
Stereo Dub,
Chrome,
Harmonia,
Urselle,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio.
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.