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 Azerbaijan and from Beijing.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ajijia Myrayebe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Theoretical Girls,
Mo-Dettes,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Judy Mowatt,
L. Decosne,
Tom Boy,
David Axelrod,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Sonics,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Adolescents,
Main Source,
Pylon,
Warren Ellis,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Monochrome Set,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Silicon Teens,
Smog,
Yusef Lateef,
Slick Rick,
Pagans,
Oneida,
Faraquet,
Qualms,
Essential Logic,
UT,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jimmy McGriff,
Simply Red,
The Selecter,
Scan 7,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Urselle,
Kayak,
Sparks,
Delta 5,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sarah Menescal,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hashim,
Tropical Tobacco,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Trojans,
Warsaw,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Hardrive,
Blake Baxter,
The Residents,
Laurel Aitken,
Ultimate Spinach,
Big Daddy Kane,
Pet Shop Boys,
Toni Rubio,
Subhumans,
Eurythmics,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.