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 Azerbaijan and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the güiro 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 Hashim to the punk 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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All Althea and Donna tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dead Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Freddie Wadling,
Underground Resistance,
The Sonics,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Brand Nubian,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bobby Womack,
Groovy Waters,
Hasil Adkins,
John Foxx,
Quadrant,
Adolescents,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Fatback Band,
Ronan,
Gong,
Prince Buster,
These Immortal Souls,
Bill Wells,
Roger Hodgson,
cv313,
Darondo,
Sonic Youth,
Lakeside,
Jandek,
The Barracudas,
The Moody Blues,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mark Hollis,
Alison Limerick,
The Litter,
The Residents,
Cal Tjader,
Q and Not U,
Flash Fearless,
Deepchord,
Echospace,
Los Fastidios,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
This Heat,
the Human League,
Television,
Matthew Halsall,
Average White Band,
Aswad,
Kurtis Blow,
The Neon Judgement,
Desert Stars,
Das Ding,
Basic Channel,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Black Sheep,
Sarah Menescal,
the Normal,
Boredoms,
The Busters,
ABC,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.