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 Tunisia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fatback Band,
Qualms,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Unrelated Segments,
Jandek,
Dennis Brown,
Roger Hodgson,
Liliput,
David Axelrod,
Scratch Acid,
Roy Ayers,
Skarface,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Jesper Dahlback,
Laurel Aitken,
Alphaville,
Barclay James Harvest,
Leonard Cohen,
The Electric Prunes,
The Fall,
Angry Samoans,
Underground Resistance,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Marine Girls,
Pylon,
Lucky Dragons,
Mark Hollis,
The Gories,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Harpers Bizarre,
Schoolly D,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Todd Terry,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Oblivians,
Deadbeat,
Crime,
Flash Fearless,
Shoche,
June Days,
Girls At Our Best!,
Grandmaster Flash,
DNA,
Can,
X-101,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Dead C,
Public Image Ltd.,
Idris Muhammad,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Boz Scaggs,
Bad Manners,
Tom Boy,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Seeds,
Joey Negro,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Trojans,
Quando Quango,
JFA,
Supertramp,
Hoover,
Bill Wells,
Quantec, Quantec, Quantec, Quantec.
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.