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 Vanuatu and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 oboe 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 Todd Rundgren to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All Hot Snakes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Neil Young,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Franke,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Dirtbombs,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Charles Mingus,
Rekid,
Scratch Acid,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Traffic Nightmare,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Crispy Ambulance,
MDC,
Pantaleimon,
Yellowson,
Camberwell Now,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
48th St. Collective,
Rapeman,
ABBA,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Easy Going,
Hasil Adkins,
Rosa Yemen,
Oblivians,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Chris & Cosey,
Jacob Miller,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Eddi Front,
Al Stewart,
Terrestrial Tones,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Index,
The Walker Brothers,
Deakin,
Drexciya,
Aaron Thompson,
Sister Nancy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Japan,
The Grass Roots,
The Real Kids,
Janne Schatter,
FM Einheit,
Essential Logic,
June Days,
Tubeway Army,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Soul Sonic Force,
Zero Boys,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
David McCallum,
Colin Newman,
Zapp,
Amon Düül II,
Ultravox,
Negative Approach,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.