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 Mauritania and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Young Rascals to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Dark Day. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ten City,
Maleditus Sound,
UT,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ponytail,
Heaven 17,
Rapeman,
Outsiders,
New Age Steppers,
Ronnie Foster,
Arcadia,
Jeff Lynne,
Moebius,
Joensuu 1685,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Fuzztones,
Youth Brigade,
Magma,
The Invisible,
Fad Gadget,
Dawn Penn,
The Shadows of Knight,
Anakelly,
The Fire Engines,
MC5,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The American Breed,
Danielle Patucci,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Kool Moe Dee,
Leonard Cohen,
Faust,
Unrelated Segments,
Piero Umiliani,
In Retrospect,
Livin' Joy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scion,
MDC,
These Immortal Souls,
Bronski Beat,
Soulsonic Force,
Angry Samoans,
Lindisfarne,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bush Tetras,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Glenn Branca,
Can,
John Holt,
Excepter,
Lee Hazlewood,
Drexciya,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
F. McDonald,
The Young Rascals,
Al Stewart,
Ultravox,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Y Pants,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.