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 the UAE and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Sao Paulo.
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 sitar 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 DJ Sneak to the punk 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
The Techniques,
The Martian,
Crispian St. Peters,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Skarface,
Michelle Simonal,
The Walker Brothers,
Black Flag,
Infiniti,
Index,
Eric Copeland,
Hot Snakes,
The Fall,
Country Teasers,
Groovy Waters,
The Standells,
Rhythm & Sound,
Derrick May,
Girls At Our Best!,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bill Near,
Zapp,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
AZ,
The Seeds,
Nils Olav,
Mo-Dettes,
Yellowson,
Reuben Wilson,
Circle Jerks,
Qualms,
The Fire Engines,
Janne Schatter,
Donny Hathaway,
The Wake,
Archie Shepp,
Chris Corsano,
Derrick Morgan,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ralphi Rosario,
New York Dolls,
The Dave Clark Five,
F. McDonald,
Lucky Dragons,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Black Dice,
Sexual Harrassment,
Livin' Joy,
Eden Ahbez,
Half Japanese,
Laurel Aitken,
Babytalk,
Hardrive,
Judy Mowatt,
R.M.O.,
Althea and Donna,
Sonic Youth,
Deakin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.