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 Haiti and from Lagos.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Panda Bear to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Slits 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tears for Fears,
The Saints,
Dave Gahan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
X-101,
Terrestrial Tones,
Joensuu 1685,
Deepchord,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Grass Roots,
Subhumans,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Theoretical Girls,
James White and The Blacks,
Audionom,
Boz Scaggs,
Robert Görl,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tubeway Army,
Wings,
The Walker Brothers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Brothers Johnson,
The Blackbyrds,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Erasure,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Max Romeo,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Monks,
Avey Tare,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Wolf Eyes,
Deadbeat,
OOIOO,
Kerrie Biddell,
Nick Fraelich,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dual Sessions,
Soft Cell,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Jandek,
Pussy Galore,
Lower 48,
Tomorrow,
Grey Daturas,
Cybotron,
Sound Behaviour,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Little Man,
These Immortal Souls,
Con Funk Shun,
Faraquet,
The Black Dice,
The Standells,
Danielle Patucci,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lakeside,
Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants.
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.