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 Georgia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 the Bar-Kays to the grime 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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Jerry Gold Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry Gold Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Unrelated Segments,
Eurythmics,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Residents,
Lalann,
Hot Snakes,
cv313,
the Slits,
The Moleskins,
Sonny Sharrock,
OOIOO,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Tomorrow,
Radiopuhelimet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Monolake,
Quantec,
The Offenders,
Skaos,
Rhythm & Sound,
David McCallum,
Jawbox,
Angry Samoans,
Silicon Teens,
Blancmange,
Agent Orange,
The Red Krayola,
Hasil Adkins,
Symarip,
Fat Boys,
Deakin,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Funkadelic,
Archie Shepp,
The Standells,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rotary Connection,
Visage,
Kerrie Biddell,
Marc Almond,
The Black Dice,
Fela Kuti,
The Real Kids,
Skarface,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Robert Hood,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Sonics,
The Trojans,
Banda Bassotti,
X-Ray Spex,
Joy Division,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Main Source,
Gil Scott Heron,
Lee Hazlewood,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.