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 Cameroon and from Cairo.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Eurythmics to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All The Mighty Diamonds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana 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 an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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 Monks,
Soul II Soul,
Hasil Adkins,
Donald Byrd,
Saccharine Trust,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lucky Dragons,
Dawn Penn,
The Knickerbockers,
James Chance & The Contortions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Brothers Johnson,
The Modern Lovers,
The Cowsills,
Radio Birdman,
This Heat,
Camouflage,
Inner City,
Janne Schatter,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Neon Judgement,
Man Eating Sloth,
Peter and Kerry,
Sonny Sharrock,
Heaven 17,
The Fire Engines,
Fear,
Barbara Tucker,
Index,
Fugazi,
Mr. Review,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lightning Bolt,
Amon Düül,
Mandrill,
Crash Course in Science,
Mission of Burma,
Khruangbin,
Johnny Clarke,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rod Modell,
Al Stewart,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gang of Four,
Country Teasers,
the Slits,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gregory Isaacs,
Junior Murvin,
Leonard Cohen,
MC5,
Alton Ellis,
Eric Dolphy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Scan 7,
Ituana,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Vladislav Delay,
Unwound,
KRS-One,
Archie Shepp,
David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie.
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.