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 Indonesia and from Woodstock.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Infiniti to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gang Gang Dance. All the underground hits.
All The Slackers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiopuhelimet,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
MDC,
Radio Birdman,
Massinfluence,
Royal Trux,
Derrick Morgan,
Black Moon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eurythmics,
The Doobie Brothers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kayak,
The Moody Blues,
Yellowson,
Technova,
Grandmaster Flash,
Matthew Bourne,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Qualms,
the Human League,
Soft Machine,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
One Last Wish,
The Motions,
Scratch Acid,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Litter,
Black Sheep,
The Human League,
Blossom Toes,
Echospace,
Ice-T,
Schoolly D,
Crispy Ambulance,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Count Five,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sound Behaviour,
The Wake,
Barbara Tucker,
Johnny Clarke,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Procol Harum,
Gang Green,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Stereo Dub,
Mo-Dettes,
Yaz,
Animal Collective,
The Modern Lovers,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Star Department,
Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
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.