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 Libya and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 spring reverb 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 Mo-Dettes to the grunge 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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All The Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
D'Angelo,
Delta 5,
Junior Murvin,
The Techniques,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Joe Finger,
kango's stein massive,
Tubeway Army,
Spandau Ballet,
Roxy Music,
MDC,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Gladiators,
Godley & Creme,
The Dead C,
Ten City,
Magma,
Half Japanese,
Sister Nancy,
E-Dancer,
Hoover,
Franke,
Crime,
Cal Tjader,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Funky Four + One,
Gerry Rafferty,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The American Breed,
Albert Ayler,
Pharoah Sanders,
Black Pus,
the Slits,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Intrusion,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Five Americans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Adolescents,
Gang Starr,
Tim Buckley,
Bush Tetras,
Rapeman,
cv313,
Heaven 17,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Anakelly,
One Last Wish,
John Lydon,
Newcleus,
Infiniti,
Black Sheep,
Quantec,
Negative Approach,
Sonny Sharrock,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
In Retrospect,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.