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 India and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 guitar 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 The Selecter 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 Move. All the underground hits.
All The Real Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pylon,
Cameo,
Japan,
Roxette,
The Slackers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joe Smooth,
10cc,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Boz Scaggs,
Tim Buckley,
Absolute Body Control,
Juan Atkins,
Carl Craig,
The Invisible,
Pussy Galore,
Moss Icon,
The Evens,
The Searchers,
Hashim,
Flipper,
Reuben Wilson,
Parry Music,
The Busters,
Rhythm & Sound,
Monolake,
Desert Stars,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sound Behaviour,
a-ha,
Reagan Youth,
Jesper Dahlback,
James White and The Blacks,
Terry Callier,
Bauhaus,
Wings,
Delon & Dalcan,
Erykah Badu,
X-Ray Spex,
Byron Stingily,
Idris Muhammad,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Connie Case,
The Cure,
Amon Düül II,
Scott Walker,
H. Thieme,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Average White Band,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Blake Baxter,
The Alarm Clocks,
Tears for Fears,
The J.B.'s,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Happenings,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Subhumans,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.