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 Liechtenstein and from Calgary.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Knickerbockers to the dance 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 Bootsy Collins. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Fuzztones,
Funkadelic,
The Move,
The Electric Prunes,
Reuben Wilson,
Spoonie Gee,
James White and The Blacks,
Absolute Body Control,
The Modern Lovers,
Desert Stars,
Spandau Ballet,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Mission of Burma,
Juan Atkins,
Jawbox,
Depeche Mode,
Don Cherry,
Todd Terry,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Dead C,
Cameo,
Sam Rivers,
Bobby Byrd,
Mantronix,
Buzzcocks,
Barry Ungar,
Fear,
Roger Hodgson,
The Trojans,
Audionom,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Eden Ahbez,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gastr Del Sol,
One Last Wish,
Hot Snakes,
Fat Boys,
Fugazi,
JFA,
Fatback Band,
Babytalk,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
AZ,
The Gun Club,
Flash Fearless,
Pharoah Sanders,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Tremeloes,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Delta 5,
Magma,
Heaven 17,
Quando Quango,
Letta Mbulu,
Arcadia,
Black Bananas,
Dark Day,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.