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 Lebanon and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All The Fall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare 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 synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Buckinghams,
Tres Demented,
Black Flag,
Monolake,
Piero Umiliani,
The Offenders,
Morten Harket,
Eddi Front,
Bobby Womack,
The Standells,
Brand Nubian,
Tears for Fears,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lindisfarne,
Ken Boothe,
The Associates,
Desert Stars,
Television Personalities,
Robert Hood,
Bob Dylan,
Donny Hathaway,
Aaron Thompson,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Barry Ungar,
Skriet,
Yellowson,
L. Decosne,
Infiniti,
Kurtis Blow,
Leonard Cohen,
The Smoke,
The Dirtbombs,
Neu!,
The Count Five,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Warren Ellis,
Kerri Chandler,
Michelle Simonal,
Cheater Slicks,
T.S.O.L.,
Eden Ahbez,
Vainqueur,
This Heat,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bootsy Collins,
Sound Behaviour,
Mars,
John Holt,
Oblivians,
Brothers Johnson,
Grey Daturas,
Crooked Eye,
Masters at Work,
10cc,
Ronan,
Unwound,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Judy Mowatt,
Siglo XX,
Lalo Schifrin,
Quando Quango,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.