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 Croatia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 Jakarta and London.
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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 K-Klass to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Evens. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sisters of Mercy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rekid,
Steve Hackett,
Lebanon Hanover,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Soul II Soul,
In Retrospect,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Carl Craig,
DJ Sneak,
Chris Corsano,
Matthew Bourne,
Jawbox,
Pulsallama,
Pantaleimon,
Symarip,
Public Enemy,
Nick Fraelich,
The Index,
Janne Schatter,
Surgeon,
Leonard Cohen,
The Barracudas,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Derrick May,
KRS-One,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ultimate Spinach,
Radio Birdman,
Suicide,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Raincoats,
Bizarre Inc.,
Albert Ayler,
Shuggie Otis,
Kurtis Blow,
Cybotron,
Eric Dolphy,
Tomorrow,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Invisible,
The Human League,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Swans,
Joe Finger,
Stereo Dub,
Skriet,
The Standells,
Icehouse,
Quadrant,
Crash Course in Science,
The J.B.'s,
Trumans Water,
ABBA,
The Grass Roots,
The Toasters,
Brick,
The Gun Club,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
X-101,
The Doobie Brothers,
Aswad,
Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail.
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.