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 Germany and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Groovy Waters to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All Idris Muhammad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nirvana,
Sonic Youth,
Ultravox,
The Vogues,
Television Personalities,
Rotary Connection,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Yusef Lateef,
Ituana,
Rhythm & Sound,
F. McDonald,
David Axelrod,
Procol Harum,
Lightning Bolt,
The Smoke,
Arthur Verocai,
Deepchord,
Crash Course in Science,
Massinfluence,
Alice Coltrane,
ABC,
Nick Fraelich,
The American Breed,
Half Japanese,
Nik Kershaw,
Barrington Levy,
Grauzone,
Bad Manners,
Donny Hathaway,
a-ha,
The Move,
Barbara Tucker,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Leaves,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Electric Prunes,
Tears for Fears,
Reuben Wilson,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gang Green,
Scratch Acid,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Al Stewart,
Fad Gadget,
Amon Düül,
Yaz,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Raincoats,
Tres Demented,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bauhaus,
The Standells,
Marcia Griffiths,
Eric Dolphy,
Marc Almond,
Skarface,
Little Man,
10cc,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.