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 United Kingdom 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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 rhodes 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 Roxy Music to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swell Maps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
Sight & Sound,
Steve Hackett,
LL Cool J,
Susan Cadogan,
The Buckinghams,
Pet Shop Boys,
Alphaville,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Electric Prunes,
Saccharine Trust,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Curtis Mayfield,
Yaz,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Terrestrial Tones,
Nik Kershaw,
Sandy B,
Yazoo,
Gang Starr,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Monolake,
B.T. Express,
Joe Finger,
Arthur Verocai,
U.S. Maple,
Gabor Szabo,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lightning Bolt,
The Black Dice,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Angry Samoans,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Blossom Toes,
Country Teasers,
Michelle Simonal,
Arcadia,
Supertramp,
Urselle,
The United States of America,
Excepter,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bill Near,
Chris Corsano,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
La Düsseldorf,
Man Parrish,
Hasil Adkins,
Essential Logic,
Toni Rubio,
The Offenders,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Golliwogs,
Ken Boothe,
Albert Ayler,
Rotary Connection,
The Zeros,
AZ,
Stiv Bators,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.