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 Oman 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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Kas Product to the electroclash 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 the Human League. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sam Rivers,
Kerri Chandler,
Procol Harum,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
the Sonics,
Nas,
Janne Schatter,
Buzzcocks,
X-Ray Spex,
Ronan,
The Gladiators,
The Saints,
June of 44,
Flash Fearless,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Gun Club,
Pierre Henry,
Ituana,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Anthony Braxton,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
LL Cool J,
Jandek,
Black Pus,
The Red Krayola,
The Leaves,
Scion,
Second Layer,
Prince Buster,
T. Rex,
Ten City,
Crime,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
ABBA,
Bill Near,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Severed Heads,
Talk Talk,
Aswad,
Visage,
Crispy Ambulance,
OOIOO,
Letta Mbulu,
the Bar-Kays,
China Crisis,
Country Teasers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scratch Acid,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rufus Thomas,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Slick Rick,
Spandau Ballet,
Dorothy Ashby,
Agent Orange,
Siglo XX,
The Move,
The Count Five,
The Standells, The Standells, The Standells, The Standells.
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.