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 Serbia and from Manila.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks to the rock 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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Barclay James Harvest,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Circle Jerks,
Whodini,
Fad Gadget,
Traffic Nightmare,
ABC,
London Community Gospel Choir,
DJ Style,
Charles Mingus,
Sam Rivers,
June of 44,
The Move,
The Litter,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Neon Judgement,
Sixth Finger,
Masters at Work,
James White and The Blacks,
Grauzone,
Black Moon,
Girls At Our Best!,
Shuggie Otis,
Jimmy McGriff,
Symarip,
Lalo Schifrin,
Boredoms,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Alton Ellis,
Idris Muhammad,
Mars,
Von Mondo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter and Kerry,
Royal Trux,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Quantec,
Kas Product,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Cheater Slicks,
Juan Atkins,
UT,
Hot Snakes,
the Slits,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Funky Four + One,
Bauhaus,
Graham Central Station,
Qualms,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Roxette,
Gerry Rafferty,
Marvin Gaye,
Ohio Players,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Negative Approach,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.