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 Chile and from Portland.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Cairo.
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 clarinet 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 Todd Terry to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Television Personalities,
Arthur Verocai,
Joy Division,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Archie Shepp,
Cameo,
Scion,
H. Thieme,
Mr. Review,
Minor Threat,
Marcia Griffiths,
Surgeon,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
L. Decosne,
Ice-T,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Vogues,
London Community Gospel Choir,
CMW,
John Foxx,
Yellowson,
Rufus Thomas,
Yaz,
The Last Poets,
Kas Product,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Marshall Jefferson,
JFA,
Shoche,
Bronski Beat,
The Gun Club,
Dorothy Ashby,
John Coltrane,
Urselle,
Heaven 17,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Circle Jerks,
Lightning Bolt,
Guru Guru,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Buckinghams,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Doobie Brothers,
Accadde A,
The Velvet Underground,
The Cowsills,
This Heat,
The Selecter,
The Leaves,
The Zeros,
The Shadows of Knight,
Young Marble Giants,
Technova,
Marvin Gaye,
Anthony Braxton,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Glambeats Corp.,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Talk Talk,
Isaac Hayes,
The Names, The Names, The Names, The Names.
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.