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 Sierra Leone and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 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 Amon Düül II to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Zapp,
Neil Young,
Lebanon Hanover,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Avey Tare,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Adolescents,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Nik Kershaw,
Khruangbin,
The Dirtbombs,
Ornette Coleman,
New Age Steppers,
Bluetip,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Knickerbockers,
Johnny Clarke,
Lower 48,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Girls At Our Best!,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sparks,
Dual Sessions,
The Cramps,
Joyce Sims,
Y Pants,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Faust,
Nico,
Aswad,
Blancmange,
Symarip,
Amazonics,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Slick Rick,
Dead Boys,
Gichy Dan,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Delon & Dalcan,
Swans,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Black Flag,
Anthony Braxton,
The Count Five,
Morten Harket,
Dave Gahan,
Crime,
Accadde A,
Eli Mardock,
John Lydon,
Hoover,
Pantytec,
Black Pus,
The Modern Lovers,
Susan Cadogan,
the Sonics,
Von Mondo,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.