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 United Kingdom and from Woodstock.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Peter & Gordon to the rock 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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arab on Radar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Con Funk Shun,
Q and Not U,
Duran Duran,
Harmonia,
The Wake,
Unwound,
Little Man,
Flamin' Groovies,
Al Stewart,
Scion,
Deepchord,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Japan,
The Residents,
Susan Cadogan,
Public Image Ltd.,
Peter and Kerry,
The Fugs,
The Monochrome Set,
Infiniti,
Laurel Aitken,
John Foxx,
Flash Fearless,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marcia Griffiths,
H. Thieme,
The Blackbyrds,
Morten Harket,
Urselle,
Kaleidoscope,
Marine Girls,
Quando Quango,
X-101,
Rotary Connection,
Skarface,
John Coltrane,
Theoretical Girls,
Oneida,
The Music Machine,
Excepter,
Anthony Braxton,
Pulsallama,
China Crisis,
Loose Ends,
Crime,
Terrestrial Tones,
In Retrospect,
Neu!,
The Motions,
Buzzcocks,
Inner City,
MDC,
Minny Pops,
Ten City,
Fluxion,
Black Moon,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Grauzone,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Carl Craig,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.