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 Andorra and from Tokyo.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 synthesizer 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vladislav Delay record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Trojans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
Monolake,
Gang Green,
Arcadia,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Black Bananas,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Trumans Water,
Aural Exciters,
the Swans,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Alice Coltrane,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pet Shop Boys,
Tubeway Army,
The Slackers,
Scratch Acid,
Oneida,
Sun Ra,
Royal Trux,
Franke,
D'Angelo,
Nas,
Anakelly,
The Detroit Cobras,
Babytalk,
The Modern Lovers,
Harmonia,
Man Parrish,
Hashim,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Jawbox,
Johnny Osbourne,
Panda Bear,
Neu!,
Bad Manners,
Crash Course in Science,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Faraquet,
Tears for Fears,
Joe Finger,
Ronnie Foster,
Section 25,
Yellowson,
The Gap Band,
Stereo Dub,
Eddi Front,
Model 500,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
a-ha,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Deakin,
The Remains,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.