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 Nigeria and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Marc Almond to the jazz 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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Franke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Cell,
Reagan Youth,
June of 44,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Selecter,
Anakelly,
The Sonics,
X-Ray Spex,
Thee Headcoats,
FM Einheit,
Bill Wells,
Simply Red,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Zero Boys,
Roy Ayers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Magazine,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Heaven 17,
Scott Walker,
The Buckinghams,
Albert Ayler,
Danielle Patucci,
Delta 5,
The Remains,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Janne Schatter,
X-101,
Metal Thangz,
The Zeros,
Jacob Miller,
Matthew Bourne,
Blossom Toes,
Ice-T,
Robert Wyatt,
Boz Scaggs,
David Bowie,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Maleditus Sound,
The Blackbyrds,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Idris Muhammad,
Kaleidoscope,
the Human League,
Public Image Ltd.,
Marcia Griffiths,
Toni Rubio,
Howard Jones,
Jerry's Kids,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pagans,
Magma,
Talk Talk,
Jeff Mills,
The Busters,
Amon Düül II,
Supertramp,
Stetsasonic,
Charles Mingus,
Tim Buckley,
John Holt,
Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya.
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.