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 Nigeria and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 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 Max Romeo to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 K-Klass. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Fania All-Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nirvana,
a-ha,
Deepchord,
Wally Richardson,
Jacob Miller,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Brick,
Ice-T,
Fad Gadget,
10cc,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Scott Walker,
The Mummies,
Glambeats Corp.,
Scrapy,
The Index,
Porter Ricks,
Shoche,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sound Behaviour,
Howard Jones,
Anthony Braxton,
New York Dolls,
Letta Mbulu,
Neu!,
Spoonie Gee,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sandy B,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Radiohead,
Quantec,
Radio Birdman,
Scientists,
Althea and Donna,
CMW,
Television Personalities,
Angry Samoans,
Thompson Twins,
Magma,
Lightning Bolt,
Half Japanese,
Jeff Lynne,
The Walker Brothers,
The Sound,
Gang Starr,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Symarip,
Wolf Eyes,
Guru Guru,
T.S.O.L.,
Infiniti,
The New Christs,
Zapp,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Rod Modell,
the Slits,
Procol Harum,
Minor Threat,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
UT,
Rites of Spring,
The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos.
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.