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 Laos and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Supertramp to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pulsallama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Trojans,
The Dave Clark Five,
Cybotron,
Wasted Youth,
Technova,
Scion,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sixth Finger,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gil Scott Heron,
Depeche Mode,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Oneida,
Robert Görl,
Livin' Joy,
Mad Mike,
Thompson Twins,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Todd Terry,
Royal Trux,
The Pop Group,
Soul II Soul,
Boogie Down Productions,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Red Krayola,
Minutemen,
Deepchord,
Agent Orange,
Archie Shepp,
The Gories,
The Stooges,
Wire,
Eric Dolphy,
Groovy Waters,
Moss Icon,
Intrusion,
The Shadows of Knight,
Frankie Knuckles,
Cymande,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Young Rascals,
Nas,
EPMD,
Skriet,
Circle Jerks,
Pagans,
10cc,
Black Pus,
Excepter,
The Searchers,
H. Thieme,
Japan,
Gang of Four,
Fluxion,
Byron Stingily,
Country Teasers,
Susan Cadogan,
The Raincoats,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Audionom,
Shoche, Shoche, Shoche, Shoche.
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.