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 Netherlands and from Spokane.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Moody Blues to the rap 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Warsaw,
The Misunderstood,
The Black Dice,
MC5,
Soft Cell,
AZ,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Theoretical Girls,
OOIOO,
David McCallum,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Tubeway Army,
Gerry Rafferty,
Isaac Hayes,
Severed Heads,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bill Wells,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rhythm & Sound,
Marcia Griffiths,
Roxette,
Morten Harket,
Japan,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jerry's Kids,
DJ Sneak,
Scott Walker,
Zapp,
The Leaves,
David Bowie,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eden Ahbez,
Ituana,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pantaleimon,
Infiniti,
T. Rex,
Metal Thangz,
Todd Terry,
Bootsy Collins,
E-Dancer,
The Velvet Underground,
The Martian,
48th St. Collective,
Ken Boothe,
Graham Central Station,
Matthew Halsall,
Jacob Miller,
Davy DMX,
kango's stein massive,
Bauhaus,
the Soft Cell,
Fad Gadget,
CMW,
Crooked Eye,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Brass Construction,
Maleditus Sound,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.