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 Vietnam and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Adolescents to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Silicon Teens. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The American Breed record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
Stereo Dub,
Boz Scaggs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Delta 5,
Bootsy Collins,
The American Breed,
Mission of Burma,
Public Enemy,
Quantec,
Drexciya,
New Order,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Monks,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Throbbing Gristle,
Johnny Clarke,
Tres Demented,
Scientists,
Amon Düül,
MDC,
The Cramps,
The Gladiators,
The Remains,
Procol Harum,
Fat Boys,
The Fall,
The Index,
The Monochrome Set,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gastr Del Sol,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Zapp,
Colin Newman,
Urselle,
The Buckinghams,
Joey Negro,
The Human League,
FM Einheit,
Skarface,
Sonny Sharrock,
Scion,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Young Rascals,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Sonics,
The Velvet Underground,
Todd Terry,
Marvin Gaye,
Von Mondo,
a-ha,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bobby Byrd,
Letta Mbulu,
Cymande,
K-Klass,
The Last Poets,
Althea and Donna,
The Selecter,
Flash Fearless,
Wings,
The Music Machine,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.