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 Tajikistan and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 sitar 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 Derrick Morgan to the dance 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 Nils Olav. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Adolescents,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
kango's stein massive,
The Misunderstood,
Yusef Lateef,
Sugar Minott,
OOIOO,
Procol Harum,
Massinfluence,
DNA,
The Moody Blues,
Robert Görl,
The Standells,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
John Coltrane,
Sandy B,
Ituana,
Moby Grape,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cymande,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Peter and Kerry,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ponytail,
Niagra,
EPMD,
Mo-Dettes,
Marcia Griffiths,
Anakelly,
Average White Band,
The Selecter,
Glenn Branca,
Essential Logic,
Jandek,
Surgeon,
Visage,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Kinks,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Gap Band,
the Sonics,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sex Pistols,
Idris Muhammad,
Buzzcocks,
Wolf Eyes,
Ossler,
Tropical Tobacco,
the Fania All-Stars,
Todd Rundgren,
Sound Behaviour,
Donny Hathaway,
K-Klass,
Audionom,
Joy Division,
Can,
Q and Not U,
Crispy Ambulance,
48th St. Collective,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.