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 Angola and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 harpsichord 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 Eurythmics 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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Boredoms,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Q65,
Underground Resistance,
Leonard Cohen,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Andrew Hill,
Minor Threat,
MC5,
Interpol,
Roger Hodgson,
Aaron Thompson,
Livin' Joy,
The Divine Comedy,
Shuggie Otis,
Excepter,
The Neon Judgement,
Shoche,
Unrelated Segments,
The Doobie Brothers,
Funky Four + One,
Q and Not U,
Ludus,
Hot Snakes,
Sonic Youth,
Toni Rubio,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
John Coltrane,
Crooked Eye,
Lalann,
X-101,
Chrome,
The Vogues,
Subhumans,
EPMD,
Reuben Wilson,
Grey Daturas,
Man Parrish,
Spoonie Gee,
Goldenarms,
Terrestrial Tones,
Wolf Eyes,
Sun City Girls,
Section 25,
These Immortal Souls,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Eden Ahbez,
Michelle Simonal,
Roxy Music,
Blancmange,
Babytalk,
Dual Sessions,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Urselle,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.