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 Austria and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Lindisfarne to the disco 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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Duran Duran tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Hutcherson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fat Boys,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ludus,
Pierre Henry,
The Buckinghams,
Jandek,
Soul Sonic Force,
Fatback Band,
Man Eating Sloth,
Unrelated Segments,
Mad Mike,
Half Japanese,
Fugazi,
Howard Jones,
Aswad,
Stiv Bators,
Ken Boothe,
Fela Kuti,
Eyeless In Gaza,
the Germs,
The Sound,
Vladislav Delay,
Q65,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gang Starr,
The Human League,
ABBA,
Aaron Thompson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Fire Engines,
H. Thieme,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sun Ra,
U.S. Maple,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ituana,
Suicide,
Rod Modell,
Pulsallama,
The New Christs,
kango's stein massive,
Loose Ends,
Pantytec,
The Mummies,
Rekid,
Stetsasonic,
Eddi Front,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Avey Tare,
The Fortunes,
Banda Bassotti,
Quantec,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The American Breed,
Graham Central Station,
Youth Brigade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.