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 Lebanon and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Pole to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Drive Like Jehu. All the underground hits.
All Au Pairs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Graham Central Station record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ossler,
Motorama,
Ohio Players,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Stetsasonic,
MDC,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Roxy Music,
Malaria!,
Delta 5,
Mars,
10cc,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kaleidoscope,
Kayak,
Sonic Youth,
Max Romeo,
LL Cool J,
Sugar Minott,
Q and Not U,
X-Ray Spex,
Rakim,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bobby Byrd,
Donald Byrd,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Modern Lovers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Vogues,
Popol Vuh,
The Smiths,
Dennis Brown,
KRS-One,
La Düsseldorf,
Idris Muhammad,
B.T. Express,
Deadbeat,
Visage,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Human League,
Jandek,
Lyres,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Nick Fraelich,
Shuggie Otis,
New Age Steppers,
Adolescents,
The Gun Club,
Bob Dylan,
Moby Grape,
Animal Collective,
Hasil Adkins,
The Star Department,
John Foxx,
Peter & Gordon,
The Move,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sound Behaviour,
Swans,
Scrapy,
Yaz,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Cramps,
Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music.
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.