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 Jamaica and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Deepchord to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 James White and The Blacks. All the underground hits.
All Frankie Knuckles tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sun City Girls,
The Skatalites,
Ituana,
Circle Jerks,
Nick Fraelich,
Bizarre Inc.,
David McCallum,
Wasted Youth,
Sister Nancy,
Negative Approach,
Lightning Bolt,
Audionom,
Marc Almond,
Hashim,
Kaleidoscope,
Rotary Connection,
Von Mondo,
L. Decosne,
Bootsy Collins,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Fugazi,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Khruangbin,
Television Personalities,
Nation of Ulysses,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bob Dylan,
Franke,
Pagans,
Toni Rubio,
Morten Harket,
Popol Vuh,
Ossler,
Eve St. Jones,
Isaac Hayes,
Faust,
Trumans Water,
Soft Cell,
June Days,
Fatback Band,
The Toasters,
The Misunderstood,
K-Klass,
Gastr Del Sol,
Man Parrish,
Mantronix,
The Dead C,
Eli Mardock,
Agent Orange,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Alphaville,
Delon & Dalcan,
Mad Mike,
Rakim,
DJ Style,
Ultravox,
Marine Girls,
The Golliwogs,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.