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 Haiti and from Woodstock.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Robert Palmer 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 Gerry Rafferty to the funk 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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All The Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every China Crisis 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bauhaus,
Gerry Rafferty,
Derrick Morgan,
The Cowsills,
Grauzone,
Sun Ra,
A Certain Ratio,
Hasil Adkins,
Hashim,
In Retrospect,
Moby Grape,
Nirvana,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Golliwogs,
Pharoah Sanders,
Moebius,
The United States of America,
Quando Quango,
Technova,
Jawbox,
Byron Stingily,
LL Cool J,
Bill Wells,
Al Stewart,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lou Reed,
Todd Terry,
Ronnie Foster,
Amon Düül II,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Walker Brothers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Von Mondo,
The Human League,
Mo-Dettes,
X-102,
Harry Pussy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joy Division,
H. Thieme,
The New Christs,
Michelle Simonal,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Kenny Larkin,
Iggy Pop,
Underground Resistance,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Index,
The Alarm Clocks,
Little Man,
Lindisfarne,
Malaria!,
The Stooges,
Wally Richardson,
Tears for Fears,
Unwound,
Amazonics, Amazonics, Amazonics, Amazonics.
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.