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 Azerbaijan and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 cv313 to the rap 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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rufus Thomas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Supertramp,
X-102,
Peter and Kerry,
Pulsallama,
Shuggie Otis,
Bobby Womack,
John Cale,
Jacques Brel,
Trumans Water,
Mandrill,
FM Einheit,
Talk Talk,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Tubeway Army,
Kerri Chandler,
X-101,
Sonny Sharrock,
Roger Hodgson,
Barbara Tucker,
Guru Guru,
Hoover,
Minutemen,
Black Bananas,
Barry Ungar,
T.S.O.L.,
Terrestrial Tones,
kango's stein massive,
Dorothy Ashby,
Blancmange,
Rhythm & Sound,
Slave,
Amazonics,
Glenn Branca,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
the Normal,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Searchers,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Wolf Eyes,
Moebius,
The Flesh Eaters,
Q and Not U,
Iggy Pop,
Isaac Hayes,
Symarip,
The United States of America,
James White and The Blacks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gastr Del Sol,
Nas,
Oneida,
Smog,
Aswad,
Ponytail,
Unwound,
Susan Cadogan,
Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work.
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.