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 Finland and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Goldenarms to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Reagan Youth,
Minor Threat,
Rites of Spring,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Birthday Party,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Aloha Tigers,
Surgeon,
The Moleskins,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dead Boys,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Agent Orange,
Ken Boothe,
Ralphi Rosario,
Moebius,
the Human League,
Boogie Down Productions,
Grey Daturas,
Echospace,
Swell Maps,
Cameo,
8 Eyed Spy,
Wire,
New Order,
Whodini,
Radiohead,
Matthew Halsall,
JFA,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lungfish,
The Cure,
David Bowie,
The Dead C,
Dawn Penn,
Scrapy,
Slick Rick,
The Music Machine,
Mantronix,
Agitation Free,
Marmalade,
Kool Moe Dee,
Crooked Eye,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Monolake,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Move,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lyres,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Brothers Johnson,
Amon Düül II,
Au Pairs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gang of Four,
Skaos,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.