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 Libya and from Columbus.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Salvador.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Cosmic Jokers to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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 Remains,
Lindisfarne,
The Beau Brummels,
Eric Dolphy,
La Düsseldorf,
Yaz,
Royal Trux,
Magma,
The Detroit Cobras,
Radiohead,
Iggy Pop,
Slick Rick,
Zapp,
The Busters,
The Young Rascals,
The Techniques,
MDC,
Scrapy,
The Blues Magoos,
Donald Byrd,
Ituana,
Basic Channel,
Hashim,
Yellowson,
Newcleus,
Todd Terry,
Agitation Free,
Minny Pops,
The Barracudas,
The Neon Judgement,
Glambeats Corp.,
Saccharine Trust,
Zero Boys,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Dennis Brown,
The J.B.'s,
Metal Thangz,
Quadrant,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gang Gang Dance,
This Heat,
Sugar Minott,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
EPMD,
Maurizio,
Bill Wells,
Joy Division,
Gichy Dan,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marvin Gaye,
Chris & Cosey,
Neil Young,
Dorothy Ashby,
Q and Not U,
Anakelly,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Selecter,
Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman.
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.