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 Estonia and from London.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Mexico City.
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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Judy Mowatt to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Absolute Body Control tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Star Department 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
K-Klass,
Parry Music,
Cymande,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jawbox,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bobby Womack,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sparks,
Wolf Eyes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Trojans,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bluetip,
The Durutti Column,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Velvet Underground,
Gong,
Black Bananas,
The Dave Clark Five,
LL Cool J,
Model 500,
Essential Logic,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Rosa Yemen,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Connie Case,
Alison Limerick,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Flesh Eaters,
Lakeside,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pet Shop Boys,
Minny Pops,
The Slackers,
The Associates,
Jeff Mills,
Albert Ayler,
The Knickerbockers,
Wally Richardson,
Peter & Gordon,
Sun City Girls,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Public Image Ltd.,
Maleditus Sound,
Eric Copeland,
Theoretical Girls,
Wings,
Suicide,
The Grass Roots,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Kas Product,
Rod Modell,
Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman.
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.