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 Kosovo and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Yellowson to the jazz 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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Ash Ra Tempel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cameo 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 mellotron and an arpeggiator 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 guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
AZ,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Selecter,
Radiohead,
Gabor Szabo,
Franke,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Nils Olav,
Connie Case,
Sexual Harrassment,
Von Mondo,
The Monochrome Set,
Shuggie Otis,
Jeff Lynne,
Symarip,
The Standells,
Sister Nancy,
Animal Collective,
Boz Scaggs,
Dennis Brown,
X-102,
Fad Gadget,
the Normal,
Urselle,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Roger Hodgson,
Pole,
Mary Jane Girls,
kango's stein massive,
Mr. Review,
Gastr Del Sol,
Stereo Dub,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sparks,
Q65,
Echospace,
T. Rex,
Cybotron,
The Saints,
Saccharine Trust,
The American Breed,
Mission of Burma,
Ohio Players,
Massinfluence,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jacob Miller,
Cymande,
The Doobie Brothers,
Ludus,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Dual Sessions,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Aaron Thompson,
Sixth Finger,
Stetsasonic,
Susan Cadogan,
Yellowson,
Neu!,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.