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 Belgium and from Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 organ 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 Deepchord to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bobby Hutcherson. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
Yellowson,
Alison Limerick,
Cluster,
Television Personalities,
The Fugs,
Tears for Fears,
Parry Music,
Black Sheep,
Rod Modell,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Y Pants,
Deepchord,
New Order,
Fela Kuti,
Simply Red,
Stereo Dub,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ronnie Foster,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
In Retrospect,
The Sonics,
The Motions,
cv313,
The Techniques,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Victims,
Surgeon,
Albert Ayler,
Jerry's Kids,
Liliput,
Fat Boys,
Bill Near,
The Monochrome Set,
Intrusion,
The Electric Prunes,
Rosa Yemen,
Aloha Tigers,
The Divine Comedy,
Hot Snakes,
Glenn Branca,
X-101,
Model 500,
R.M.O.,
ABBA,
Popol Vuh,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Real Kids,
Lebanon Hanover,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Nirvana,
U.S. Maple,
Chris Corsano,
Unrelated Segments,
Brand Nubian,
Marc Almond,
LL Cool J,
Oblivians,
The Human League,
The Neon Judgement,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.