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 Cyprus and from Bologna.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Amon Düül II to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Parry Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fugs,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Don Cherry,
The Human League,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Black Moon,
Schoolly D,
Swans,
Lightning Bolt,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gerry Rafferty,
Josef K,
Bizarre Inc.,
Agent Orange,
the Swans,
Amon Düül II,
Technova,
The Gun Club,
Derrick May,
Funkadelic,
Clear Light,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Man Eating Sloth,
Quadrant,
Massinfluence,
Royal Trux,
Crime,
Symarip,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Wings,
Sexual Harrassment,
This Heat,
Soul II Soul,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pierre Henry,
The Tremeloes,
Sound Behaviour,
Aloha Tigers,
Scan 7,
Mark Hollis,
Joey Negro,
Hardrive,
Oneida,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Rosa Yemen,
48th St. Collective,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Angels of Light,
Skarface,
Colin Newman,
The Standells,
The Fall,
Graham Central Station,
David Bowie,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lyres,
Lalo Schifrin,
ABBA,
B.T. Express,
Heaven 17,
Minny Pops,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.