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 Kuwait and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Soft Cell to the disco 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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Intrusion,
The Real Kids,
Brass Construction,
Simply Red,
Flipper,
The Barracudas,
The United States of America,
The Divine Comedy,
Yusef Lateef,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fire Engines,
Loose Ends,
Scientists,
Jimmy McGriff,
Barrington Levy,
Soulsonic Force,
Matthew Bourne,
DNA,
Michelle Simonal,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Mo-Dettes,
Massinfluence,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Cybotron,
New Order,
David Axelrod,
Rod Modell,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Martian,
The Selecter,
Eli Mardock,
Adolescents,
Suburban Knight,
The Seeds,
Infiniti,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pierre Henry,
Nation of Ulysses,
Arthur Verocai,
The Grass Roots,
The Blues Magoos,
New Age Steppers,
Amon Düül II,
Mission of Burma,
This Heat,
the Normal,
One Last Wish,
Parry Music,
Jacques Brel,
Peter & Gordon,
Gabor Szabo,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Dirtbombs,
The Toasters,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Los Fastidios,
The Dead C,
The Sonics,
Essential Logic,
The Move,
Average White Band,
Magazine,
Isaac Hayes,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.