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 Honduras and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 mellotron 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 The Associates to the techno 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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Harry Pussy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aural Exciters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Joensuu 1685,
Bush Tetras,
Eric Copeland,
Fugazi,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Harpers Bizarre,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Slits,
Sugar Minott,
Susan Cadogan,
Skriet,
Negative Approach,
D'Angelo,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mad Mike,
Crooked Eye,
Alison Limerick,
The Dirtbombs,
The Golliwogs,
Fatback Band,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Roy Ayers,
Depeche Mode,
Harry Pussy,
Radiohead,
CMW,
Cal Tjader,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Adolescents,
Bobby Byrd,
cv313,
The Count Five,
Thee Headcoats,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Raincoats,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Main Source,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Monks,
Ultra Naté,
Yusef Lateef,
X-102,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Gap Band,
DNA,
Icehouse,
Godley & Creme,
Drive Like Jehu,
Thompson Twins,
Bootsy Collins,
Make Up,
Japan,
Ossler,
The Standells,
The Invisible,
Los Fastidios,
KRS-One,
Black Flag,
Michelle Simonal,
Tomorrow,
Prince Buster,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
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.