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 Moldova and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 oboe 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 Danielle Patucci to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
Toni Rubio,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
ABBA,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Yusef Lateef,
Barbara Tucker,
Visage,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ronan,
The J.B.'s,
Joyce Sims,
Bobby Byrd,
The Gories,
Radiopuhelimet,
T. Rex,
Scion,
Roxy Music,
Crime,
Masters at Work,
Joensuu 1685,
Technova,
The Fuzztones,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ultravox,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Eurythmics,
H. Thieme,
China Crisis,
Dark Day,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Harmonia,
Gang Green,
Sun City Girls,
Marvin Gaye,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Derrick Morgan,
The Grass Roots,
Colin Newman,
Mary Jane Girls,
Animal Collective,
Lee Hazlewood,
Siglo XX,
Silicon Teens,
Sonic Youth,
Vladislav Delay,
Warsaw,
Kayak,
Symarip,
UT,
Cal Tjader,
Kas Product,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Grey Daturas,
The Cowsills,
The Fortunes,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Yazoo,
The Gap Band,
Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters.
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.