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 Brunei and from New York.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 oboe 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 Sparks to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Count Five. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord 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 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Misunderstood,
The Star Department,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Soft Cell,
Lucky Dragons,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Barry Ungar,
Radiopuhelimet,
Dawn Penn,
Tubeway Army,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Colin Newman,
Cal Tjader,
Groovy Waters,
Gastr Del Sol,
Y Pants,
John Holt,
The Fuzztones,
Amazonics,
Eurythmics,
The Birthday Party,
The Angels of Light,
Lou Reed,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sixth Finger,
CMW,
Quantec,
The Motions,
Pantytec,
Circle Jerks,
The Dirtbombs,
Dual Sessions,
Monks,
Letta Mbulu,
China Crisis,
The Techniques,
Sun City Girls,
Donny Hathaway,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
D'Angelo,
Electric Prunes,
Quadrant,
Derrick Morgan,
Nico,
Brass Construction,
Harmonia,
Ice-T,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Albert Ayler,
Joey Negro,
Ponytail,
Rosa Yemen,
Chris Corsano,
Lou Christie,
The Golliwogs,
The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes.
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.