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 Vanuatu and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Hasil Adkins to the disco 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 Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacques Brel,
Rod Modell,
Von Mondo,
The Star Department,
Lebanon Hanover,
Massinfluence,
CMW,
Magma,
Jeff Mills,
Gerry Rafferty,
Harpers Bizarre,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Roxy Music,
Gang Starr,
X-102,
Ohio Players,
EPMD,
Al Stewart,
Sonic Youth,
Brothers Johnson,
Dawn Penn,
Bobby Hutcherson,
U.S. Maple,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Tremeloes,
Scan 7,
Pagans,
Supertramp,
Lalann,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Electric Prunes,
Todd Terry,
Absolute Body Control,
Lucky Dragons,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Saints,
The Birthday Party,
Eli Mardock,
Danielle Patucci,
Anthony Braxton,
Avey Tare,
Toni Rubio,
Girls At Our Best!,
Popol Vuh,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Zeros,
John Coltrane,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Isaac Hayes,
Gong,
Cheater Slicks,
Suicide,
The Evens,
Eric B and Rakim,
This Heat,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gap Band,
MC5,
a-ha,
Hardrive,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.