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 Liechtenstein and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 rhodes 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Laurel Aitken. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Smog,
the Human League,
David McCallum,
Unwound,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Sonics,
Boz Scaggs,
The Last Poets,
Ronnie Foster,
The Doors,
Jandek,
Rapeman,
Rod Modell,
The Velvet Underground,
Talk Talk,
Heaven 17,
Rotary Connection,
Todd Terry,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Fire Engines,
Yazoo,
Warren Ellis,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pole,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ronan,
Derrick Morgan,
Warsaw,
Funky Four + One,
Y Pants,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Television Personalities,
Basic Channel,
The Blackbyrds,
Wally Richardson,
Soul Sonic Force,
Skaos,
Junior Murvin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Toni Rubio,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Harry Pussy,
Jawbox,
Sarah Menescal,
Sparks,
Excepter,
Mr. Review,
The Remains,
Model 500,
Eric B and Rakim,
Scientists,
The Grass Roots,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Steve Hackett,
The Toasters,
Alphaville,
Marc Almond,
The Motions,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.