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 Chad and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 linndrum 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 Ice-T to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camouflage 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Grass Roots,
Junior Murvin,
Robert Görl,
Echospace,
MC5,
R.M.O.,
The Skatalites,
L. Decosne,
Godley & Creme,
Clear Light,
Joe Smooth,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Black Dice,
The Birthday Party,
In Retrospect,
Agitation Free,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Blues Magoos,
Nation of Ulysses,
the Normal,
Roger Hodgson,
Scion,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Sonics,
Jerry's Kids,
The Smiths,
Bluetip,
Hot Snakes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Monks,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Toni Rubio,
Harry Pussy,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Can,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Niagra,
Rapeman,
Rotary Connection,
DJ Sneak,
New Order,
Wally Richardson,
Susan Cadogan,
Radio Birdman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jawbox,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bizarre Inc.,
Howard Jones,
Black Pus,
The Techniques,
Stetsasonic,
Drexciya,
Peter & Gordon,
The Electric Prunes,
Eric Dolphy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pulsallama,
Patti Smith,
Yaz,
Barclay James Harvest,
Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon.
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.