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 Egypt and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 güiro 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 Dual Sessions to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All Brothers Johnson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sparks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
Dual Sessions,
Ken Boothe,
Absolute Body Control,
K-Klass,
UT,
DJ Style,
Main Source,
Livin' Joy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Rhythm & Sound,
Pylon,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Happenings,
China Crisis,
Todd Rundgren,
Black Flag,
Tim Buckley,
Pagans,
Basic Channel,
Ralphi Rosario,
Byron Stingily,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Faraquet,
The Zeros,
Gang Green,
Gang of Four,
The Busters,
The Seeds,
PIL,
Monolake,
Easy Going,
Motorama,
Derrick Morgan,
Alton Ellis,
Ponytail,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Laurel Aitken,
Sight & Sound,
The Mummies,
Tropical Tobacco,
Connie Case,
Rites of Spring,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
A Certain Ratio,
The Victims,
Zapp,
Pussy Galore,
The Grass Roots,
The Moleskins,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Fugs,
The Velvet Underground,
The Human League,
Average White Band,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Angels of Light,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
John Coltrane,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Alphaville,
Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia.
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.