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 Maldives and from Houston.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 harpsichord 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 Ronan to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tropical Tobacco,
Minutemen,
Danielle Patucci,
Sonny Sharrock,
Excepter,
Loose Ends,
The Vogues,
The Buckinghams,
the Human League,
Parry Music,
Cal Tjader,
Chris & Cosey,
The Toasters,
Average White Band,
Yazoo,
The American Breed,
The Neon Judgement,
Rekid,
New Order,
Jacob Miller,
Jerry's Kids,
Sandy B,
Altered Images,
The Associates,
Black Bananas,
Bizarre Inc.,
H. Thieme,
Moss Icon,
X-101,
OOIOO,
The Cramps,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kerri Chandler,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Goldenarms,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Barrington Levy,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kevin Saunderson,
The New Christs,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Joe Smooth,
Yellowson,
Marine Girls,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bad Manners,
Bobby Womack,
the Swans,
Au Pairs,
Cybotron,
The Names,
Nick Fraelich,
Underground Resistance,
Connie Case,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
LL Cool J,
Scion,
Byron Stingily,
Joensuu 1685,
Monolake,
Ohio Players,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.