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 Seychelles and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Larry & the Blue Notes 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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Kenny Larkin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Pus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
In Retrospect,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Tom Boy,
Grauzone,
Mo-Dettes,
Vainqueur,
Blossom Toes,
Outsiders,
Clear Light,
Liliput,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Skatalites,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ultimate Spinach,
Boz Scaggs,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Slackers,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pylon,
Eve St. Jones,
Lakeside,
Unwound,
Gong,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Public Enemy,
Toni Rubio,
Radiohead,
The Dead C,
Pantaleimon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Derrick Morgan,
Ludus,
Robert Wyatt,
Colin Newman,
Rufus Thomas,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lyres,
Mandrill,
Donny Hathaway,
Loose Ends,
Yaz,
K-Klass,
Fluxion,
Stereo Dub,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Average White Band,
The American Breed,
Aaron Thompson,
Radiopuhelimet,
Royal Trux,
Yellowson,
Stiv Bators,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rapeman,
Fatback Band,
Section 25,
The Monochrome Set,
Severed Heads,
Warsaw,
Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work.
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.