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 Tanzania and from Manchester.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 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 X-101 to the grime 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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Ituana,
Brothers Johnson,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ultra Naté,
Barbara Tucker,
Absolute Body Control,
One Last Wish,
Alphaville,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Brick,
The Monks,
The Standells,
The Fuzztones,
China Crisis,
Lower 48,
Kayak,
Tomorrow,
The Mummies,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sparks,
Boz Scaggs,
Pagans,
New Order,
cv313,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scan 7,
Alison Limerick,
Massinfluence,
The Dead C,
David McCallum,
Crooked Eye,
Fatback Band,
PIL,
Cecil Taylor,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ten City,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Yusef Lateef,
Juan Atkins,
Tears for Fears,
Blake Baxter,
Kurtis Blow,
Black Moon,
Funky Four + One,
Scott Walker,
Unwound,
Desert Stars,
10cc,
Theoretical Girls,
Easy Going,
Slave,
The Fugs,
The Blues Magoos,
kango's stein massive,
Ronnie Foster,
Brass Construction,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Marvin Gaye,
The Five Americans,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.