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 Nepal and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes 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 The Gladiators to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Knickerbockers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hoover,
Electric Prunes,
The Grass Roots,
Negative Approach,
The Skatalites,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Slackers,
Royal Trux,
Colin Newman,
K-Klass,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Byron Stingily,
the Germs,
The Human League,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Main Source,
Television Personalities,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Hashim,
Easy Going,
Bluetip,
Make Up,
The Cramps,
Black Moon,
Basic Channel,
The Knickerbockers,
Marshall Jefferson,
Duran Duran,
Magma,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Golliwogs,
Sixth Finger,
Icehouse,
the Slits,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kenny Larkin,
Charles Mingus,
Lindisfarne,
Suburban Knight,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Smog,
The Names,
Pantaleimon,
The Busters,
Deadbeat,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bootsy Collins,
Fat Boys,
The Leaves,
Pere Ubu,
Kayak,
Cheater Slicks,
Soft Cell,
Rosa Yemen,
X-102,
The Sonics,
Dark Day,
The Moody Blues,
Sparks,
Essential Logic,
Mary Jane Girls,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.