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 Argentina and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 clarinet 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 Sparks to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sister Nancy. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mojo Men 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Metal Thangz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
The Barracudas,
Bill Near,
Nas,
David Bowie,
Don Cherry,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Gap Band,
Pulsallama,
Marvin Gaye,
T. Rex,
Lindisfarne,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Jandek,
The Sonics,
Desert Stars,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Simply Red,
The Residents,
Ornette Coleman,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Cure,
Goldenarms,
Loose Ends,
The Slackers,
Tropical Tobacco,
Grey Daturas,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
David McCallum,
June Days,
Guru Guru,
The Music Machine,
Soul II Soul,
Livin' Joy,
Symarip,
The Pretty Things,
Henry Cow,
Zapp,
Skriet,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Letta Mbulu,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Buckinghams,
Hashim,
Scrapy,
PIL,
Audionom,
Technova,
Shuggie Otis,
Patti Smith,
Severed Heads,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Gories,
The Monochrome Set,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Glenn Branca,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Vladislav Delay,
Camberwell Now,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.