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 Jamaica and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Salvador.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the electroclash 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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jimmy McGriff record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Rites of Spring,
Patti Smith,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Black Flag,
Grauzone,
Suburban Knight,
The Pop Group,
Ornette Coleman,
The Music Machine,
Cymande,
Mantronix,
Kaleidoscope,
Fear,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Absolute Body Control,
The Kinks,
Magazine,
The Associates,
the Human League,
Jacques Brel,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Dave Gahan,
The Remains,
In Retrospect,
Anthony Braxton,
8 Eyed Spy,
Main Source,
The Martian,
D'Angelo,
Neil Young,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Litter,
Peter & Gordon,
LL Cool J,
Graham Central Station,
These Immortal Souls,
The Sound,
Accadde A,
Crash Course in Science,
Delon & Dalcan,
Crime,
The Mummies,
DJ Style,
Isaac Hayes,
Ponytail,
Todd Terry,
10cc,
Junior Murvin,
Lindisfarne,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Can,
The United States of America,
Brass Construction,
Scan 7,
FM Einheit,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.