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 Lebanon and from Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 synthesizer 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 Eric Copeland to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radio Birdman,
Excepter,
Average White Band,
Davy DMX,
the Soft Cell,
Schoolly D,
Laurel Aitken,
Icehouse,
Hashim,
Yaz,
Scion,
Porter Ricks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bill Wells,
The Gap Band,
Arab on Radar,
Hasil Adkins,
The Vogues,
The Searchers,
Michelle Simonal,
Yazoo,
Sexual Harrassment,
Kool Moe Dee,
Alton Ellis,
Sun Ra,
8 Eyed Spy,
Cecil Taylor,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Invisible,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Television Personalities,
Deakin,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ten City,
Whodini,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kerri Chandler,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
World's Most,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Barracudas,
Rapeman,
The Residents,
Youth Brigade,
Oblivians,
Supertramp,
Adolescents,
Magazine,
Radiohead,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gichy Dan,
Marvin Gaye,
Saccharine Trust,
The Moleskins,
Joensuu 1685,
Henry Cow,
Arthur Verocai,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yusef Lateef,
Aswad, Aswad, Aswad, Aswad.
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.