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 Mexico and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Michael McDonald 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 Supertramp to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pulsallama,
the Swans,
Bobby Womack,
The Offenders,
Big Daddy Kane,
Arcadia,
Black Flag,
Sparks,
Guru Guru,
The Misunderstood,
The Gun Club,
These Immortal Souls,
The Walker Brothers,
Soft Cell,
Rhythm & Sound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Five Americans,
The Stooges,
Fat Boys,
Ornette Coleman,
Black Sheep,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Roxy Music,
Howard Jones,
Interpol,
The Zeros,
Juan Atkins,
Arab on Radar,
Metal Thangz,
Lungfish,
DJ Style,
Sugar Minott,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
This Heat,
Tommy Roe,
Faust,
The New Christs,
Thee Headcoats,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Nik Kershaw,
The Sound,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Roy Ayers,
Siglo XX,
Blossom Toes,
The Victims,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Minutemen,
Dark Day,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Panda Bear,
Barry Ungar,
Mandrill,
Ten City,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bad Manners,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Qualms,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gregory Isaacs,
OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO.
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.