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 Cambodia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 linndrum 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 Bootsy Collins to the rock 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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camouflage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cameo,
Flash Fearless,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Frankie Knuckles,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bootsy Collins,
Faraquet,
Whodini,
Sight & Sound,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Little Man,
Minnie Riperton,
Dave Gahan,
Half Japanese,
Deakin,
Angry Samoans,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Chrome,
ABC,
Flamin' Groovies,
Eli Mardock,
Grey Daturas,
Animal Collective,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kas Product,
E-Dancer,
Marc Almond,
The Skatalites,
Warsaw,
Boredoms,
Lucky Dragons,
Buzzcocks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Flesh Eaters,
Nik Kershaw,
Darondo,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ten City,
The Barracudas,
Saccharine Trust,
The Smoke,
Jandek,
Tropical Tobacco,
MDC,
Kevin Saunderson,
Faust,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Make Up,
ABBA,
Tim Buckley,
Lakeside,
John Lydon,
The Martian,
Boz Scaggs,
Gregory Isaacs,
UT,
Lungfish,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Curtis Mayfield,
James White and The Blacks,
Radiohead,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.