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 Iraq and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 snare 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 MDC to the disco 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 Lou Reed. All the underground hits.
All The Searchers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
Danielle Patucci,
Andrew Hill,
Pussy Galore,
The Five Americans,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Trojans,
Cecil Taylor,
K-Klass,
Youth Brigade,
Yazoo,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
PIL,
Cluster,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Knickerbockers,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Seeds,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Adolescents,
Delta 5,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mr. Review,
New York Dolls,
Leonard Cohen,
Mandrill,
Young Marble Giants,
The American Breed,
Barclay James Harvest,
Arcadia,
Girls At Our Best!,
Scrapy,
Fugazi,
8 Eyed Spy,
Grandmaster Flash,
kango's stein massive,
The Skatalites,
Minny Pops,
Gastr Del Sol,
Jeff Mills,
Sarah Menescal,
Robert Wyatt,
Todd Rundgren,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Flesh Eaters,
Thompson Twins,
Dave Gahan,
Darondo,
Moby Grape,
Public Enemy,
X-Ray Spex,
Tim Buckley,
Gichy Dan,
Sugar Minott,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Intrusion,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Black Pus,
Aaron Thompson,
Eurythmics, Eurythmics, Eurythmics, Eurythmics.
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.