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 Tuvalu and from Stockholm.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 snare 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 jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rites of Spring. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mojo Men record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Freddie Wadling record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
Lakeside,
Aloha Tigers,
Maurizio,
Television Personalities,
The J.B.'s,
Sonic Youth,
Brass Construction,
Juan Atkins,
Y Pants,
Leonard Cohen,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Techniques,
X-101,
The Neon Judgement,
Girls At Our Best!,
Arthur Verocai,
Mars,
The Trojans,
The United States of America,
K-Klass,
Public Image Ltd.,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bootsy Collins,
Fatback Band,
Agitation Free,
New Order,
PIL,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Deepchord,
Unrelated Segments,
the Fania All-Stars,
Cymande,
Johnny Clarke,
Hasil Adkins,
Yaz,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ornette Coleman,
Sight & Sound,
Babytalk,
Scott Walker,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Icehouse,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
ABC,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Model 500,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mad Mike,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mo-Dettes,
Inner City,
Audionom,
The Fuzztones,
Kool Moe Dee,
Supertramp,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bobby Byrd,
Flamin' Groovies,
Interpol,
Radiopuhelimet,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.