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 China and from Bremen.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 La Düsseldorf to the punk 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 The Remains. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
L. Decosne,
Flash Fearless,
Oneida,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ten City,
The Moody Blues,
Mandrill,
Neil Young,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Radiopuhelimet,
Severed Heads,
Tears for Fears,
Magma,
The Red Krayola,
Black Sheep,
Curtis Mayfield,
Half Japanese,
Toni Rubio,
The Motions,
Masters at Work,
Skarface,
Buzzcocks,
Cheater Slicks,
Amazonics,
Henry Cow,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Young Rascals,
Byron Stingily,
Yazoo,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Surgeon,
Wire,
Barrington Levy,
Swell Maps,
ABC,
Ituana,
Pet Shop Boys,
Roger Hodgson,
In Retrospect,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ultimate Spinach,
Rakim,
Amon Düül,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Shoche,
Don Cherry,
Camouflage,
the Fania All-Stars,
Adolescents,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
New Order,
The Standells,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Skriet,
The Skatalites,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Modern Lovers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jeff Lynne,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.