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 Nigeria and from Accra.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Zapp to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Pop Group. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Pharoah Sanders,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
A Certain Ratio,
Fluxion,
AZ,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Schoolly D,
Supertramp,
Cluster,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Pantytec,
X-Ray Spex,
Donald Byrd,
Aural Exciters,
Juan Atkins,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Mars,
Nas,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kool Moe Dee,
Q and Not U,
Laurel Aitken,
Das Ding,
The Slits,
Severed Heads,
The Fall,
Jawbox,
The Monochrome Set,
Spoonie Gee,
the Association,
ABC,
Stockholm Monsters,
Grey Daturas,
Delon & Dalcan,
Camberwell Now,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Warren Ellis,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
June of 44,
CMW,
Symarip,
Grandmaster Flash,
Soul II Soul,
Inner City,
Eve St. Jones,
Eric Copeland,
Al Stewart,
Traffic Nightmare,
Toni Rubio,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kas Product,
Organ,
Groovy Waters,
Quadrant,
The Music Machine,
The Smoke,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.