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 Montenegro and from Bologna.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Donald Fagen 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 Lungfish to the funk 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 Spandau Ballet. All the underground hits.
All Echo & the Bunnymen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Rod Modell,
Black Moon,
Bronski Beat,
One Last Wish,
Pulsallama,
Thompson Twins,
Joyce Sims,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Barclay James Harvest,
Black Flag,
Gong,
Accadde A,
The Blackbyrds,
Aswad,
Aaron Thompson,
The Buckinghams,
Crooked Eye,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Masters at Work,
June Days,
Blake Baxter,
Adolescents,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pylon,
Scrapy,
The Five Americans,
The Velvet Underground,
China Crisis,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Cecil Taylor,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Brand Nubian,
Country Teasers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Q65,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Simply Red,
The American Breed,
Dave Gahan,
The Motions,
Juan Atkins,
John Cale,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Siglo XX,
The Cowsills,
Gabor Szabo,
Lee Hazlewood,
Matthew Halsall,
Anthony Braxton,
These Immortal Souls,
Kayak,
Neu!,
Mandrill,
Morten Harket,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Jeff Mills,
Black Bananas,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective.
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.