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 Cuba and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 synthesizer 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 Lebanon Hanover to the funk 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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Walker Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen 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?
Silicon Teens,
Ten City,
Guru Guru,
A Certain Ratio,
Matthew Halsall,
The Sound,
AZ,
Maurizio,
Warsaw,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Dawn Penn,
Rotary Connection,
The Red Krayola,
Can,
The Five Americans,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sex Pistols,
Porter Ricks,
Cal Tjader,
Massinfluence,
Organ,
Popol Vuh,
Josef K,
OOIOO,
Camouflage,
Derrick Morgan,
Section 25,
The Selecter,
Al Stewart,
X-Ray Spex,
Drexciya,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Cramps,
Gang Green,
Livin' Joy,
Sarah Menescal,
Black Moon,
Nation of Ulysses,
Tommy Roe,
June of 44,
Radio Birdman,
Quantec,
Tubeway Army,
Tomorrow,
Lou Christie,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Loose Ends,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Blues Magoos,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sister Nancy,
Funky Four + One,
a-ha,
DJ Style,
The Star Department,
Yusef Lateef,
the Soft Cell,
Delon & Dalcan,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.