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 Monaco and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Lou Reed 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 ABC to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sonics 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pierre Henry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-Ray Spex,
Simply Red,
Eli Mardock,
Excepter,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Yusef Lateef,
Bob Dylan,
E-Dancer,
The United States of America,
Fela Kuti,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roger Hodgson,
Eric B and Rakim,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Searchers,
Kerri Chandler,
Fear,
Amon Düül II,
The Doors,
Los Fastidios,
Pylon,
New Order,
Country Teasers,
Panda Bear,
Ohio Players,
Sound Behaviour,
The Gap Band,
June Days,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Roxy Music,
Tropical Tobacco,
Nas,
Thompson Twins,
Lower 48,
X-102,
Stiv Bators,
Isaac Hayes,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Barclay James Harvest,
Juan Atkins,
Bluetip,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Godley & Creme,
Ludus,
The Sonics,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Knickerbockers,
David Axelrod,
Sam Rivers,
Crime,
10cc,
Susan Cadogan,
The Standells,
Sun Ra,
Quadrant,
Rosa Yemen,
Freddie Wadling,
The Sound,
Icehouse,
Desert Stars,
the Sonics,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
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.