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 Romania and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 808 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 Panda Bear to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Grandmaster Flash. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip 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 marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Residents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Kinks,
Procol Harum,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Fatback Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Blues Magoos,
Scientists,
Siglo XX,
Steve Hackett,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Can,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Robert Hood,
the Sonics,
Maleditus Sound,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Technova,
Whodini,
48th St. Collective,
The Cowsills,
Bad Manners,
Negative Approach,
Bluetip,
Von Mondo,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eurythmics,
Babytalk,
Magazine,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Little Man,
David McCallum,
Simply Red,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ituana,
The Monks,
Al Stewart,
Ten City,
The Stooges,
Yellowson,
Livin' Joy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Schoolly D,
Fort Wilson Riot,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bob Dylan,
Nirvana,
CMW,
Lightning Bolt,
Jandek,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pere Ubu,
Motorama,
Black Bananas,
Amon Düül,
Bang On A Can,
Todd Terry,
The Mojo Men,
The Count Five,
Quantec, Quantec, Quantec, Quantec.
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.