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 Lithuania and from Milan.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Rotary Connection to the grunge 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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Vogues,
Marshall Jefferson,
Anakelly,
Organ,
The Searchers,
Qualms,
Arcadia,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Amazonics,
Gang Green,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ultravox,
The Buckinghams,
The Mummies,
Amon Düül,
Nik Kershaw,
The Names,
Niagra,
The Offenders,
Moebius,
Derrick Morgan,
The Flesh Eaters,
Glambeats Corp.,
Altered Images,
H. Thieme,
Ituana,
Matthew Bourne,
Make Up,
Ultra Naté,
Don Cherry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun Ra,
Josef K,
Pharoah Sanders,
Electric Prunes,
Lower 48,
The Walker Brothers,
Boredoms,
Jandek,
Andrew Hill,
The Count Five,
Camouflage,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lalann,
Robert Görl,
Flash Fearless,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Associates,
Moss Icon,
Black Sheep,
The Standells,
Kerrie Biddell,
Pet Shop Boys,
Dark Day,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Gun Club,
Camberwell Now,
Deepchord,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.