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 Laos and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Unrelated Segments to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Piero Umiliani record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Deakin,
The Dead C,
The Toasters,
Lyres,
Cheater Slicks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lee Hazlewood,
Index,
Parry Music,
Masters at Work,
Quantec,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Au Pairs,
The Blues Magoos,
Amon Düül,
Gichy Dan,
Flamin' Groovies,
Aswad,
Spoonie Gee,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bush Tetras,
FM Einheit,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Stetsasonic,
Marvin Gaye,
Neil Young,
Wolf Eyes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Moebius,
Iggy Pop,
PIL,
The Skatalites,
Marine Girls,
Johnny Osbourne,
Young Marble Giants,
Faust,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Gang of Four,
Marcia Griffiths,
Babytalk,
The Young Rascals,
the Bar-Kays,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bobby Byrd,
Jesper Dahlback,
Cameo,
Eric Dolphy,
Sun City Girls,
Fatback Band,
Lou Christie,
Pole,
Glambeats Corp.,
Traffic Nightmare,
Hoover,
The Barracudas,
Joyce Sims,
The Misunderstood, The Misunderstood, The Misunderstood, The Misunderstood.
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.