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 Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Swans to the funk 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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Robert Görl tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
The Dead C,
Deadbeat,
Bill Wells,
Gang of Four,
Ornette Coleman,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Y Pants,
Archie Shepp,
Porter Ricks,
Wings,
Graham Central Station,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Soulsonic Force,
Stetsasonic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Surgeon,
Matthew Bourne,
Anthony Braxton,
Sister Nancy,
Danielle Patucci,
FM Einheit,
T. Rex,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Blackbyrds,
Roxy Music,
Inner City,
Bob Dylan,
UT,
Yellowson,
the Human League,
The Gories,
Eric Copeland,
The Seeds,
Alphaville,
Section 25,
Amon Düül II,
The Blues Magoos,
Kaleidoscope,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ralphi Rosario,
Eric Dolphy,
Fugazi,
Liliput,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Animal Collective,
Desert Stars,
Sparks,
Marc Almond,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ice-T,
Zapp,
Nirvana,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
X-Ray Spex,
Can,
China Crisis,
La Düsseldorf,
Cecil Taylor,
Wally Richardson,
10cc,
Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants.
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.