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 Nauru and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Cairo.
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 snare 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 Harpers Bizarre to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Roger Hodgson. All the underground hits.
All Ultra Naté tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
John Foxx,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Underground Resistance,
F. McDonald,
cv313,
Altered Images,
Flipper,
John Cale,
U.S. Maple,
Unwound,
The Cowsills,
Patti Smith,
Roxy Music,
Bad Manners,
Nils Olav,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Tim Buckley,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Victims,
Depeche Mode,
Yaz,
Cymande,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Franke,
The Seeds,
Donald Byrd,
The Gories,
Deepchord,
Ronan,
Oblivians,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Matthew Bourne,
Juan Atkins,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Intrusion,
Technova,
Siglo XX,
Delon & Dalcan,
Neu!,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ten City,
Max Romeo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Monolake,
Make Up,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Aural Exciters,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Althea and Donna,
Amon Düül II,
Matthew Halsall,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sandy B,
Rosa Yemen,
Marmalade,
Slave,
Skaos,
Scan 7,
Magazine,
Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring.
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.