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 Chile and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and New York.
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 chamberlin 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 Black Pus to the grunge 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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bush Tetras,
Nick Fraelich,
Das Ding,
The Barracudas,
Public Image Ltd.,
Babytalk,
Scientists,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Searchers,
Deepchord,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
K-Klass,
Pole,
Marmalade,
Colin Newman,
The J.B.'s,
Carl Craig,
Wally Richardson,
The Victims,
Donald Byrd,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Knickerbockers,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Scrapy,
Television,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Kayak,
Nico,
Crime,
Sonic Youth,
Eve St. Jones,
Brick,
cv313,
L. Decosne,
Fear,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Cramps,
OOIOO,
Connie Case,
Yusef Lateef,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Sonics,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Monochrome Set,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Reuben Wilson,
The Move,
Little Man,
Jeff Mills,
D'Angelo,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Symarip,
Circle Jerks,
Supertramp,
Glambeats Corp.,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gang of Four,
Motorama,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Q65,
The Blackbyrds,
Country Teasers,
Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio.
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.