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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 Calgary and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 marimba 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 Livin' Joy to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cramps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
the Bar-Kays,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Patti Smith,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Selecter,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Technova,
Motorama,
Judy Mowatt,
Lee Hazlewood,
Pussy Galore,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ituana,
Anakelly,
Reagan Youth,
New Age Steppers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Delta 5,
The Busters,
Bob Dylan,
Negative Approach,
Darondo,
R.M.O.,
Boredoms,
Rapeman,
Jesper Dahlback,
Warsaw,
Ultravox,
Rufus Thomas,
The American Breed,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Moss Icon,
Electric Prunes,
Skarface,
Echospace,
Albert Ayler,
Schoolly D,
the Human League,
Altered Images,
Kas Product,
Minny Pops,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Soft Machine,
The Last Poets,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Monolake,
10cc,
Silicon Teens,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Remains,
Hot Snakes,
Massinfluence,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bill Near,
Marmalade,
David Axelrod,
Siglo XX,
Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec.
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.