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 Estonia and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Mandrill 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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Au Pairs 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flipper record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lucky Dragons,
Kayak,
Bad Manners,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
the Fania All-Stars,
Soulsonic Force,
Niagra,
New Order,
Peter and Kerry,
Ralphi Rosario,
Animal Collective,
The Gories,
Symarip,
Kerri Chandler,
Derrick May,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Rosa Yemen,
Yaz,
Los Fastidios,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Nik Kershaw,
Warren Ellis,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
David Bowie,
The Wake,
Morten Harket,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Con Funk Shun,
Yusef Lateef,
Panda Bear,
Eric B and Rakim,
Wally Richardson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Boredoms,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Monochrome Set,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Fugs,
Sex Pistols,
ABBA,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Metal Thangz,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Joe Finger,
Michelle Simonal,
Gil Scott Heron,
Warsaw,
Jesper Dahlback,
JFA,
The Cramps,
The Associates,
Grauzone,
Suburban Knight,
Girls At Our Best!,
Big Daddy Kane,
the Slits,
The Velvet Underground,
Amon Düül,
Oblivians,
Pylon,
Hashim,
Deakin, Deakin, Deakin, Deakin.
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.