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 Egypt and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Alton Ellis to the disco 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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Boz Scaggs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rapeman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Wake,
Gong,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kenny Larkin,
Scientists,
Monks,
Faust,
Scion,
Dead Boys,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Amazonics,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Gladiators,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The United States of America,
Royal Trux,
The Litter,
Von Mondo,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Durutti Column,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Motorama,
The Monks,
The Smoke,
The Pop Group,
Sun City Girls,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Unrelated Segments,
Be Bop Deluxe,
KRS-One,
Rod Modell,
Cybotron,
Arthur Verocai,
The Blackbyrds,
Absolute Body Control,
Reuben Wilson,
Liliput,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Procol Harum,
Babytalk,
Frankie Knuckles,
Dave Gahan,
Public Enemy,
Nas,
Country Teasers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kas Product,
Leonard Cohen,
the Normal,
CMW,
Moss Icon,
Average White Band,
Erasure,
In Retrospect,
Stetsasonic,
Flash Fearless,
The Buckinghams,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Swell Maps,
Michelle Simonal,
Skaos,
Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange.
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.