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 Germany and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 rhodes 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 Suburban Knight to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Trumans Water,
The Human League,
Ultimate Spinach,
Neil Young,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
PIL,
Royal Trux,
Todd Terry,
Jandek,
Franke,
Tropical Tobacco,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Modern Lovers,
Scott Walker,
Bluetip,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Gang of Four,
Country Teasers,
Jimmy McGriff,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Kerri Chandler,
Derrick May,
Quantec,
The Count Five,
Scientists,
The Young Rascals,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Warren Ellis,
Scrapy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fear,
ABC,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lindisfarne,
Gil Scott Heron,
Hardrive,
Roxy Music,
Yellowson,
The Pop Group,
Connie Case,
Pet Shop Boys,
Rufus Thomas,
Rapeman,
Absolute Body Control,
Aural Exciters,
Fatback Band,
the Normal,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Mummies,
The Kinks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gang Green,
Carl Craig,
Kool Moe Dee,
Godley & Creme,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Zero Boys,
Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus.
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.