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 Nepal and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Curtis Mayfield to the rap 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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Alarm Clocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Golliwogs,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Scientists,
Michelle Simonal,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Electric Prunes,
Intrusion,
Easy Going,
Lebanon Hanover,
Cybotron,
Main Source,
Gang of Four,
Radiopuhelimet,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bush Tetras,
Clear Light,
Sam Rivers,
Ken Boothe,
The Tremeloes,
The Barracudas,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Johnny Osbourne,
the Sonics,
kango's stein massive,
The Divine Comedy,
Ornette Coleman,
Jerry's Kids,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Vogues,
Icehouse,
The Red Krayola,
Metal Thangz,
The Slits,
Eric Copeland,
Oneida,
Ituana,
Aural Exciters,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Fear,
Jacob Miller,
The Names,
Con Funk Shun,
Guru Guru,
Second Layer,
Yusef Lateef,
Marine Girls,
Skaos,
UT,
Rotary Connection,
Hardrive,
Man Parrish,
Sixth Finger,
MC5,
The Cure,
The Raincoats,
Dual Sessions,
Public Image Ltd.,
David Bowie,
Adolescents,
Youth Brigade,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.