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 Paraguay and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Aloha Tigers to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Urselle 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 rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Blackbyrds,
Rekid,
The Misunderstood,
The Toasters,
Swans,
D'Angelo,
Barclay James Harvest,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
June Days,
Von Mondo,
Surgeon,
Brick,
The Pretty Things,
Gang Starr,
Drive Like Jehu,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bad Manners,
Kerrie Biddell,
Niagra,
Albert Ayler,
The Fire Engines,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
ABC,
Hardrive,
Pole,
Amazonics,
Kevin Saunderson,
Toni Rubio,
Y Pants,
Average White Band,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Stooges,
Thee Headcoats,
Erasure,
Warsaw,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Dead C,
Sister Nancy,
Guru Guru,
Agent Orange,
Rosa Yemen,
Accadde A,
Sun Ra,
Andrew Hill,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Alison Limerick,
The Fall,
The Kinks,
Gabor Szabo,
Alphaville,
Archie Shepp,
Wasted Youth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Modern Lovers,
Underground Resistance,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Count Five,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.