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 Madagascar and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Maurizio to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Kinks. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moleskins 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Monks,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
These Immortal Souls,
John Coltrane,
Radio Birdman,
Alphaville,
Barry Ungar,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Circle Jerks,
Malaria!,
Skarface,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Byron Stingily,
The Gladiators,
Mission of Burma,
Scan 7,
Roxette,
The United States of America,
The Fire Engines,
Metal Thangz,
Minutemen,
kango's stein massive,
Danielle Patucci,
Michelle Simonal,
Aural Exciters,
Neu!,
Eurythmics,
Soft Cell,
Jacob Miller,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Cramps,
Harmonia,
Fad Gadget,
Ornette Coleman,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Kinks,
JFA,
The Misunderstood,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Man Parrish,
Supertramp,
Gichy Dan,
Qualms,
R.M.O.,
X-101,
Public Image Ltd.,
Mo-Dettes,
Amon Düül,
Basic Channel,
Surgeon,
Parry Music,
Drexciya,
Jeff Lynne,
Mary Jane Girls,
Man Eating Sloth,
Warren Ellis,
Das Ding,
The Offenders,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.