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 United Kingdom and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Kerrie Biddell to the rock 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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flipper 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vainqueur,
Alphaville,
Y Pants,
Heaven 17,
Faraquet,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Popol Vuh,
Sandy B,
The Residents,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Soul II Soul,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Eli Mardock,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ituana,
Wasted Youth,
Brass Construction,
Delta 5,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sam Rivers,
Arthur Verocai,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Groovy Waters,
Ronnie Foster,
Fear,
David McCallum,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lower 48,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pole,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Godley & Creme,
The Toasters,
Magma,
Don Cherry,
Hot Snakes,
Harpers Bizarre,
kango's stein massive,
Kaleidoscope,
Robert Hood,
Radio Birdman,
Mars,
The Invisible,
L. Decosne,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Fire Engines,
Alton Ellis,
Clear Light,
Stetsasonic,
John Lydon,
Tears for Fears,
Bootsy Collins,
The Smiths,
Marcia Griffiths,
Goldenarms,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Danielle Patucci,
Johnny Clarke,
Donny Hathaway,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.