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 Gambia and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Roxy Music to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
The Raincoats,
Yusef Lateef,
Barry Ungar,
The Cramps,
Aloha Tigers,
The Residents,
Piero Umiliani,
U.S. Maple,
Spoonie Gee,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fugs,
Anthony Braxton,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Infiniti,
David Axelrod,
Slave,
Brothers Johnson,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Fatback Band,
Joe Smooth,
Youth Brigade,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Count Five,
Black Flag,
Bluetip,
Lungfish,
Can,
Guru Guru,
Thompson Twins,
Reuben Wilson,
Scratch Acid,
Jandek,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bauhaus,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Blake Baxter,
John Coltrane,
Yazoo,
Bill Wells,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
David McCallum,
Rosa Yemen,
Silicon Teens,
Bad Manners,
Albert Ayler,
Juan Atkins,
The Toasters,
Lalo Schifrin,
Icehouse,
Minnie Riperton,
cv313,
Faust,
Fela Kuti,
Kenny Larkin,
Deepchord,
Unwound,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.