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 Latvia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Glasgow.
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 güiro 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 Jesper Dahlback to the punk 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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Ralphi Rosario tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rhythm & Sound,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
cv313,
Swans,
Dawn Penn,
Max Romeo,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Howard Jones,
The Busters,
Cymande,
Grauzone,
The Selecter,
Dark Day,
Au Pairs,
The Stooges,
Oneida,
Schoolly D,
Wings,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Spoonie Gee,
Kenny Larkin,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Tomorrow,
June Days,
Vainqueur,
The Skatalites,
Radio Birdman,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Blake Baxter,
Los Fastidios,
Toni Rubio,
Marc Almond,
Joe Finger,
Lee Hazlewood,
DNA,
T.S.O.L.,
Peter and Kerry,
Amon Düül,
Television Personalities,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Morten Harket,
These Immortal Souls,
David Axelrod,
Pere Ubu,
Monolake,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Agent Orange,
Dual Sessions,
Funky Four + One,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Ronnie Foster,
KRS-One,
Guru Guru,
Ralphi Rosario,
Scrapy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bad Manners,
Shuggie Otis,
The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds.
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.