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 Chad and from Toronto.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Lou Reed 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 Bizarre Inc. to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
Donny Hathaway,
Faust,
Darondo,
AZ,
Anthony Braxton,
Neil Young,
Amon Düül,
This Heat,
Symarip,
Talk Talk,
Glenn Branca,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Kas Product,
Mars,
Section 25,
Cybotron,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Vogues,
Make Up,
KRS-One,
Bush Tetras,
T. Rex,
Derrick Morgan,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sex Pistols,
Joey Negro,
The Star Department,
Grauzone,
Nirvana,
Q65,
Man Parrish,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Jeff Lynne,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Neon Judgement,
Interpol,
Lyres,
Public Image Ltd.,
Magma,
The Velvet Underground,
Surgeon,
Wire,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Josef K,
Yellowson,
China Crisis,
Rufus Thomas,
Japan,
DNA,
John Coltrane,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Aural Exciters,
Barrington Levy,
The Dead C,
The Doors,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.