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 Malta and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 sitar 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Gap Band. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ponytail,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Offenders,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Skatalites,
Andrew Hill,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pantytec,
Deakin,
The Walker Brothers,
Boz Scaggs,
The Mojo Men,
Sight & Sound,
Brass Construction,
Roy Ayers,
The Standells,
The Vogues,
Silicon Teens,
Soft Machine,
Joe Smooth,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Alice Coltrane,
Marvin Gaye,
Michelle Simonal,
Sonic Youth,
Black Moon,
Scrapy,
Peter and Kerry,
Lightning Bolt,
The Dirtbombs,
Lyres,
Quadrant,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Dave Clark Five,
Alton Ellis,
Amazonics,
B.T. Express,
Byron Stingily,
Hasil Adkins,
The Wake,
These Immortal Souls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Zapp,
Goldenarms,
One Last Wish,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Public Enemy,
Surgeon,
The Move,
The Modern Lovers,
James White and The Blacks,
The Red Krayola,
Blossom Toes,
kango's stein massive,
Reuben Wilson,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Litter,
Fluxion,
The Martian,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.