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 Libya and from Manchester.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 mellotron 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 Anakelly to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Donald Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
10cc,
Camouflage,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Joensuu 1685,
Porter Ricks,
Ohio Players,
Pagans,
Harmonia,
Blake Baxter,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
ABC,
Pulsallama,
Theoretical Girls,
Young Marble Giants,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Excepter,
Absolute Body Control,
Johnny Osbourne,
Fear,
FM Einheit,
Gabor Szabo,
Rosa Yemen,
Pierre Henry,
The Cowsills,
Don Cherry,
Joe Smooth,
Man Eating Sloth,
DJ Sneak,
Outsiders,
The Wake,
Technova,
Organ,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Grass Roots,
Bill Wells,
Jawbox,
Erykah Badu,
DNA,
Black Bananas,
Radiohead,
The Golliwogs,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Skriet,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Ponytail,
Anakelly,
Agitation Free,
Iggy Pop,
Rotary Connection,
Kevin Saunderson,
Main Source,
Kool Moe Dee,
Negative Approach,
Lightning Bolt,
Tommy Roe,
Black Moon,
the Swans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Leaves,
Kayak, Kayak, Kayak, Kayak.
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.