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 Turkey and from Seoul.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 chamberlin 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 Can to the techno 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 Royal Family And The Poor. All the underground hits.
All Bang on a Can All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Scion,
Gabor Szabo,
Stiv Bators,
R.M.O.,
Pere Ubu,
Surgeon,
Spandau Ballet,
Essential Logic,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Trumans Water,
Nas,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Moon,
The Blues Magoos,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Oneida,
Alison Limerick,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Circle Jerks,
Darondo,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ultra Naté,
Bobby Womack,
Sun Ra,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Pop Group,
Bootsy Collins,
Bobby Byrd,
Dead Boys,
Kevin Saunderson,
Babytalk,
The Cosmic Jokers,
kango's stein massive,
Masters at Work,
Massinfluence,
Carl Craig,
Roger Hodgson,
Spoonie Gee,
Fela Kuti,
Guru Guru,
John Coltrane,
Funky Four + One,
Theoretical Girls,
Kerrie Biddell,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ituana,
Boz Scaggs,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
John Cale,
The Tremeloes,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ultimate Spinach,
Audionom,
Wolf Eyes,
Warsaw,
Iggy Pop,
Camouflage,
Marvin Gaye,
Yusef Lateef,
Ten City,
H. Thieme,
the Association, the Association, the Association, the Association.
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.