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 Laos and from Hong Kong.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 arpeggiator 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 Scion to the techno 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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Walker Brothers,
F. McDonald,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ultravox,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Isaac Hayes,
U.S. Maple,
Japan,
Warren Ellis,
Swell Maps,
Scrapy,
David Axelrod,
The Dirtbombs,
Vladislav Delay,
The Human League,
Silicon Teens,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Tom Boy,
Camberwell Now,
Neil Young,
Skaos,
Von Mondo,
Charles Mingus,
Black Flag,
Roy Ayers,
The Gun Club,
Saccharine Trust,
Young Marble Giants,
Max Romeo,
Letta Mbulu,
The Victims,
Joey Negro,
Sun Ra,
Rufus Thomas,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kenny Larkin,
Brick,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Crash Course in Science,
Adolescents,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moby Grape,
Ultra Naté,
Main Source,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ultimate Spinach,
Tres Demented,
Eurythmics,
John Cale,
Quantec,
Chris Corsano,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
La Düsseldorf,
Kevin Saunderson,
Icehouse,
Minny Pops,
The Moleskins,
Quando Quango,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Matthew Halsall,
Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going.
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.