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 Venezuela and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 harpsichord 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 David McCallum to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
The Standells,
Yusef Lateef,
Kurtis Blow,
Marshall Jefferson,
Eric Copeland,
Hardrive,
Joe Smooth,
Ten City,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Invisible,
Gastr Del Sol,
New Order,
Das Ding,
Marc Almond,
Rufus Thomas,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Sonics,
Magma,
Roxy Music,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
10cc,
Rotary Connection,
kango's stein massive,
The Mojo Men,
Mars,
Tres Demented,
Neil Young,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Yellowson,
Underground Resistance,
Stiv Bators,
Colin Newman,
Man Parrish,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ponytail,
Stereo Dub,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Index,
The Saints,
Ralphi Rosario,
Newcleus,
MC5,
the Swans,
Junior Murvin,
The Residents,
Lou Reed,
Crispian St. Peters,
Kool Moe Dee,
Massinfluence,
John Cale,
Byron Stingily,
L. Decosne,
B.T. Express,
JFA,
Negative Approach,
Moss Icon,
8 Eyed Spy,
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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.