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 Mozambique 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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 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 Country Teasers to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Das Ding tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Skatalites,
Soft Machine,
Alton Ellis,
The Remains,
John Foxx,
Minnie Riperton,
The Gladiators,
Michelle Simonal,
Pussy Galore,
One Last Wish,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jeff Mills,
Marine Girls,
Fluxion,
K-Klass,
Maurizio,
James White and The Blacks,
Desert Stars,
Animal Collective,
Minor Threat,
Eric Dolphy,
AZ,
Dead Boys,
Marc Almond,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Alphaville,
Sarah Menescal,
Cecil Taylor,
Gabor Szabo,
The Sonics,
Marshall Jefferson,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Moleskins,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Livin' Joy,
MDC,
Rod Modell,
Black Flag,
Television Personalities,
8 Eyed Spy,
Hashim,
the Soft Cell,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Wasted Youth,
The Stooges,
Roger Hodgson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Public Enemy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Martian,
Ice-T,
Main Source,
48th St. Collective,
Bootsy Collins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Blossom Toes,
Avey Tare,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.