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 Iraq and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 rhodes 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo to the funk 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 Junior Murvin. All the underground hits.
All Man Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Barracudas 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Brand Nubian,
Aural Exciters,
Lakeside,
Howard Jones,
T.S.O.L.,
Kayak,
Scion,
Black Bananas,
The Human League,
Nation of Ulysses,
Audionom,
Yusef Lateef,
Sister Nancy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Wake,
Stereo Dub,
Los Fastidios,
Suicide,
Deepchord,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Main Source,
World's Most,
Max Romeo,
Moss Icon,
Public Image Ltd.,
Yellowson,
Technova,
Stiv Bators,
U.S. Maple,
Desert Stars,
Erykah Badu,
Gong,
The Smiths,
Jandek,
Roxette,
Little Man,
Pantytec,
Patti Smith,
The Angels of Light,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Delta 5,
Chris & Cosey,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
One Last Wish,
The Gories,
the Soft Cell,
Rekid,
Au Pairs,
Matthew Halsall,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
JFA,
Sam Rivers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Archie Shepp,
Jimmy McGriff,
D'Angelo,
Hoover,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.