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 Marshall Islands and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Toronto and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 snare 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 Slave 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tubeway Army record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Blancmange record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
The Moleskins,
Carl Craig,
Rakim,
Pylon,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Slackers,
Massinfluence,
Jesper Dahlback,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Soul Sonic Force,
Grey Daturas,
Tommy Roe,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Surgeon,
Soft Machine,
The Stooges,
Talk Talk,
The Pretty Things,
Sex Pistols,
Fela Kuti,
Gang Starr,
Stiv Bators,
Con Funk Shun,
Delon & Dalcan,
Amon Düül II,
This Heat,
The Kinks,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The American Breed,
Japan,
Icehouse,
Radio Birdman,
The Evens,
Ultravox,
The Toasters,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Warren Ellis,
La Düsseldorf,
AZ,
Bang On A Can,
The Velvet Underground,
Dennis Brown,
The Pop Group,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Idris Muhammad,
The United States of America,
Gabor Szabo,
Lightning Bolt,
Main Source,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Qualms,
The Cowsills,
The Techniques,
Whodini,
Godley & Creme,
The Blues Magoos,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Monks,
Matthew Halsall,
Ituana,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.