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 Tuvalu and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 mellotron 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 Cal Tjader to the jazz 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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All The Five Americans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Sun City Girls,
Tears for Fears,
The Litter,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Echospace,
DNA,
Lou Christie,
Agitation Free,
Black Bananas,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gerry Rafferty,
Gichy Dan,
Flamin' Groovies,
Eddi Front,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Brothers Johnson,
Eden Ahbez,
Technova,
The Smoke,
Public Enemy,
Fatback Band,
Talk Talk,
Donald Byrd,
Rufus Thomas,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Essential Logic,
Alice Coltrane,
Marmalade,
Joe Finger,
Livin' Joy,
Neu!,
The Buckinghams,
Thompson Twins,
Matthew Halsall,
Au Pairs,
The Barracudas,
Carl Craig,
Gang Green,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Man Eating Sloth,
Buzzcocks,
Throbbing Gristle,
Colin Newman,
Urselle,
Clear Light,
Susan Cadogan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camouflage,
Banda Bassotti,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lalann,
Althea and Donna,
The Birthday Party,
The Busters,
Minny Pops,
Pole,
One Last Wish,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.