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 United States and from Delhi.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 marimba 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 X-Ray Spex to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Hood,
The Alarm Clocks,
Schoolly D,
The Toasters,
Blancmange,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Thee Headcoats,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Velvet Underground,
Kevin Saunderson,
Clear Light,
Glenn Branca,
Bronski Beat,
The Fuzztones,
B.T. Express,
Unwound,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Donny Hathaway,
Kenny Larkin,
Q and Not U,
Eden Ahbez,
Dorothy Ashby,
Television Personalities,
Heaven 17,
Whodini,
The Moody Blues,
Wire,
DJ Style,
DJ Sneak,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Minnie Riperton,
Rotary Connection,
The Cure,
T. Rex,
Japan,
Susan Cadogan,
Marmalade,
The Music Machine,
Lebanon Hanover,
Robert Görl,
Josef K,
the Association,
Pere Ubu,
Crime,
K-Klass,
Sam Rivers,
This Heat,
Nation of Ulysses,
Interpol,
Fatback Band,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
cv313,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Symarip,
Sugar Minott,
Rekid,
10cc,
Matthew Bourne,
Sarah Menescal,
Q65, Q65, Q65, Q65.
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.