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 Argentina and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Lou Reed 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lungfish,
Grey Daturas,
X-102,
In Retrospect,
Ludus,
UT,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Human League,
Funkadelic,
Main Source,
Toni Rubio,
World's Most,
Gang Gang Dance,
Archie Shepp,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jeru the Damaja,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Japan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Young Marble Giants,
Crispy Ambulance,
Depeche Mode,
Outsiders,
Q65,
Fear,
The Beau Brummels,
Organ,
Sister Nancy,
Eli Mardock,
Deadbeat,
Average White Band,
The Golliwogs,
Bootsy Collins,
Delta 5,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Scan 7,
Deepchord,
Qualms,
Yazoo,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Martian,
Angry Samoans,
Liliput,
Lucky Dragons,
John Foxx,
Essential Logic,
Warren Ellis,
Procol Harum,
The United States of America,
Con Funk Shun,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Leaves,
Scratch Acid,
Erykah Badu,
10cc,
Man Parrish,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sun Ra,
Gong,
Tim Buckley,
Marshall Jefferson,
Rites of Spring,
a-ha,
Matthew Bourne,
The Names, The Names, The Names, The Names.
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.