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 Mauritius and from Mexico City.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 The Gories to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All Susan Cadogan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Y Pants,
A Certain Ratio,
Scan 7,
Crime,
Parry Music,
Eric Copeland,
JFA,
Quadrant,
Smog,
Negative Approach,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Toni Rubio,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Donny Hathaway,
the Sonics,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Seeds,
Agent Orange,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Barracudas,
Letta Mbulu,
The Young Rascals,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Archie Shepp,
Bill Wells,
The Remains,
Mary Jane Girls,
Babytalk,
Depeche Mode,
Nick Fraelich,
DNA,
the Association,
Theoretical Girls,
Spoonie Gee,
Outsiders,
Eurythmics,
EPMD,
Steve Hackett,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Dead Boys,
Sparks,
Eden Ahbez,
Marvin Gaye,
H. Thieme,
The Mojo Men,
Reuben Wilson,
The Names,
Alton Ellis,
The Happenings,
The Birthday Party,
Deepchord,
Peter and Kerry,
Sun Ra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pet Shop Boys,
Laurel Aitken,
Sarah Menescal,
Freddie Wadling,
Ken Boothe,
Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane.
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.