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 Afghanistan and from Portland.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Zapp 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 X-Ray Spex. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Fat Boys,
Main Source,
Stetsasonic,
Simply Red,
the Slits,
Pantaleimon,
Infiniti,
Patti Smith,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Golliwogs,
Freddie Wadling,
Barbara Tucker,
Eric Dolphy,
Make Up,
Nick Fraelich,
Cal Tjader,
Deepchord,
Adolescents,
FM Einheit,
LL Cool J,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Aaron Thompson,
Public Image Ltd.,
Aloha Tigers,
Davy DMX,
Crispian St. Peters,
Joensuu 1685,
Accadde A,
Letta Mbulu,
Crash Course in Science,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Stooges,
Al Stewart,
Curtis Mayfield,
Motorama,
Gastr Del Sol,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
the Normal,
the Swans,
Flash Fearless,
Alphaville,
The Dirtbombs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Peter and Kerry,
Radio Birdman,
Eurythmics,
Reagan Youth,
New York Dolls,
Dorothy Ashby,
Loose Ends,
Faraquet,
The Tremeloes,
Cecil Taylor,
Black Sheep,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Count Five,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.