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 Austria and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Royal Trux to the grime 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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharoah Sanders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Prince Buster,
Quadrant,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Fad Gadget,
The Techniques,
The Cramps,
Echospace,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Remains,
Fear,
Smog,
the Soft Cell,
Tim Buckley,
The Fugs,
Camouflage,
The Count Five,
ABC,
Infiniti,
Iggy Pop,
Fela Kuti,
Altered Images,
Don Cherry,
Fluxion,
Skarface,
Junior Murvin,
Goldenarms,
Black Sheep,
Gang Starr,
AZ,
Ponytail,
The J.B.'s,
Mantronix,
Neil Young,
Theoretical Girls,
Simply Red,
Toni Rubio,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Public Enemy,
Amon Düül,
Marshall Jefferson,
Marc Almond,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Second Layer,
Icehouse,
The Busters,
Bush Tetras,
Tom Boy,
L. Decosne,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Beau Brummels,
Todd Terry,
Albert Ayler,
Basic Channel,
Patti Smith,
Nils Olav,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Stockholm Monsters,
Roger Hodgson,
Graham Central Station,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.