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 Mongolia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Mighty Diamonds to the funk 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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Hashim,
DJ Sneak,
Rotary Connection,
Junior Murvin,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Pretty Things,
The United States of America,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Johnny Clarke,
Model 500,
Boz Scaggs,
The Black Dice,
Dennis Brown,
Magazine,
Matthew Halsall,
X-101,
Eve St. Jones,
The Doors,
Gichy Dan,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Au Pairs,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Funky Four + One,
Fifty Foot Hose,
T.S.O.L.,
Bad Manners,
Gastr Del Sol,
Frankie Knuckles,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Neil Young,
Dark Day,
Mad Mike,
In Retrospect,
Pagans,
Erasure,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Shoche,
The Names,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Stooges,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Steve Hackett,
Donny Hathaway,
Black Sheep,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Qualms,
Main Source,
Graham Central Station,
JFA,
Moebius,
The Toasters,
Soft Cell,
Lightning Bolt,
Tres Demented,
Gil Scott Heron,
Q65,
Rhythm & Sound,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jandek,
Laurel Aitken,
Bootsy Collins,
The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans.
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.