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 Mongolia and from Manila.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the guitar 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 Excepter to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Evens,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
8 Eyed Spy,
Fat Boys,
The Alarm Clocks,
Kerri Chandler,
The Techniques,
The New Christs,
The Wake,
Anthony Braxton,
Shoche,
Amazonics,
Arab on Radar,
Colin Newman,
Charles Mingus,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Rufus Thomas,
Eve St. Jones,
Surgeon,
Anakelly,
Monks,
Byron Stingily,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Massinfluence,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Fela Kuti,
Warren Ellis,
Robert Wyatt,
Skaos,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Trojans,
Chrome,
DNA,
Yazoo,
Dorothy Ashby,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Clear Light,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gang of Four,
Ice-T,
Jacques Brel,
Minor Threat,
B.T. Express,
Lakeside,
Grandmaster Flash,
Mad Mike,
Icehouse,
Marine Girls,
Leonard Cohen,
Au Pairs,
Barbara Tucker,
The Standells,
Isaac Hayes,
Alphaville,
Panda Bear,
Bizarre Inc.,
Terry Callier,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Piero Umiliani,
The Associates,
Connie Case,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.