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 Brazil and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Ossler to the funk 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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mission of Burma,
These Immortal Souls,
Lebanon Hanover,
U.S. Maple,
Monks,
Black Pus,
Adolescents,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Modern Lovers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
ABC,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Leonard Cohen,
MDC,
Wings,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lightning Bolt,
Mo-Dettes,
Peter & Gordon,
Jawbox,
Ralphi Rosario,
Iggy Pop,
The J.B.'s,
H. Thieme,
Gabor Szabo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lungfish,
The Techniques,
8 Eyed Spy,
Siglo XX,
The Remains,
Sly & The Family Stone,
LL Cool J,
Bobby Byrd,
Nico,
Con Funk Shun,
Accadde A,
Hashim,
Silicon Teens,
Hardrive,
The Dave Clark Five,
Echospace,
AZ,
Isaac Hayes,
Oneida,
Tim Buckley,
Faust,
The Alarm Clocks,
Quando Quango,
Archie Shepp,
Roy Ayers,
Scott Walker,
The Index,
Derrick May,
Arthur Verocai,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lyres,
Metal Thangz,
Severed Heads,
Lindisfarne,
D'Angelo,
Henry Cow,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.