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 Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 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 The Victims to the techno 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 Kings Of Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Boz Scaggs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Freddie Wadling record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
The Gories,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pole,
Fugazi,
CMW,
Rod Modell,
The United States of America,
Black Sheep,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Litter,
Deepchord,
Patti Smith,
OOIOO,
Aswad,
AZ,
Kerri Chandler,
Rakim,
Lakeside,
Symarip,
Theoretical Girls,
Crispy Ambulance,
Alphaville,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Moody Blues,
John Foxx,
Electric Prunes,
L. Decosne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Brick,
EPMD,
World's Most,
Erykah Badu,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Michelle Simonal,
Hoover,
Throbbing Gristle,
Fatback Band,
Danielle Patucci,
Freddie Wadling,
Barrington Levy,
Rites of Spring,
The Young Rascals,
Zapp,
Colin Newman,
Cymande,
The Music Machine,
Slave,
Sparks,
Crime,
The Toasters,
The Black Dice,
Byron Stingily,
Hot Snakes,
Radiohead,
Brothers Johnson,
Mark Hollis,
Cameo,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.