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 Thailand and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 mellotron 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 Minny Pops to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marmalade 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?
Bad Manners,
Lou Reed,
Cymande,
Heaven 17,
The Motions,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Brick,
The Doors,
The Move,
The New Christs,
Ash Ra Tempel,
One Last Wish,
Scion,
Mo-Dettes,
Organ,
Skriet,
Desert Stars,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Searchers,
Barrington Levy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Red Krayola,
David Axelrod,
Barry Ungar,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pantaleimon,
D'Angelo,
The Pretty Things,
Sound Behaviour,
Ohio Players,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
kango's stein massive,
Outsiders,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Kool Moe Dee,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Visage,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Goldenarms,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
ABC,
Gong,
Kas Product,
a-ha,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Count Five,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mary Jane Girls,
Main Source,
Derrick May,
The Remains,
Lyres,
The Gladiators,
Royal Trux,
New Age Steppers,
Ornette Coleman,
Arcadia,
Warren Ellis,
The Cramps,
Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective.
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.