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 Afghanistan and from Tehran.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Delta 5 to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All The Peanut Butter Conspiracy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Silicon Teens,
8 Eyed Spy,
Amon Düül,
Boredoms,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Harry Pussy,
FM Einheit,
Essential Logic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Qualms,
Von Mondo,
Ossler,
Glambeats Corp.,
Colin Newman,
John Coltrane,
Man Eating Sloth,
Make Up,
The United States of America,
Dawn Penn,
Robert Wyatt,
Peter & Gordon,
The Buckinghams,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Reuben Wilson,
Tres Demented,
Thompson Twins,
Sun Ra,
The Selecter,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Stooges,
Traffic Nightmare,
the Normal,
Index,
Chris & Cosey,
The Golliwogs,
Soft Cell,
Jerry's Kids,
Ronan,
Kevin Saunderson,
Harmonia,
Roy Ayers,
Scott Walker,
Rhythm & Sound,
Peter and Kerry,
The Moleskins,
kango's stein massive,
the Human League,
The Neon Judgement,
the Sonics,
Adolescents,
Circle Jerks,
Archie Shepp,
Television Personalities,
Zapp,
Black Sheep,
Bill Near,
Arab on Radar,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.