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 Grenada and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 linndrum 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 The Invisible to the rap 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 Royal Trux. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Anakelly,
Suburban Knight,
Q and Not U,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
New York Dolls,
Lyres,
Von Mondo,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Grass Roots,
The Zeros,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Organ,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Buckinghams,
Hot Snakes,
Andrew Hill,
Ultimate Spinach,
Oneida,
Sandy B,
A Certain Ratio,
Technova,
Pylon,
The Wake,
Bronski Beat,
DNA,
Byron Stingily,
Nils Olav,
The Raincoats,
Janne Schatter,
DJ Style,
Roger Hodgson,
The Busters,
Kas Product,
The Evens,
Massinfluence,
Camouflage,
Kevin Saunderson,
Freddie Wadling,
Parry Music,
The Velvet Underground,
The Fuzztones,
Popol Vuh,
Average White Band,
Rufus Thomas,
The Searchers,
Gerry Rafferty,
Soft Machine,
Audionom,
Fatback Band,
Groovy Waters,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Doors,
Avey Tare,
Wire,
Bobby Sherman,
Echospace,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Traffic Nightmare,
Aural Exciters,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.