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 Portugal and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Moody Blues. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man 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?
Duran Duran,
Panda Bear,
Connie Case,
La Düsseldorf,
Audionom,
Deadbeat,
ABBA,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Fall,
Bang On A Can,
Sex Pistols,
Max Romeo,
Idris Muhammad,
Soft Cell,
Nirvana,
Parry Music,
The Moody Blues,
Juan Atkins,
Ken Boothe,
Marcia Griffiths,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gong,
Barbara Tucker,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Durutti Column,
One Last Wish,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Metal Thangz,
Matthew Bourne,
The Slackers,
Wings,
DJ Sneak,
Moss Icon,
Nico,
Wasted Youth,
Johnny Clarke,
Dennis Brown,
Technova,
Visage,
Motorama,
Zero Boys,
Funky Four + One,
Tears for Fears,
The Walker Brothers,
Gerry Rafferty,
Rosa Yemen,
Basic Channel,
Scott Walker,
Erasure,
Carl Craig,
cv313,
The Zeros,
Janne Schatter,
The Dead C,
Joensuu 1685,
Massinfluence,
The Gun Club,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.