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 China and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 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 La Düsseldorf to the funk 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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All Moss Icon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brass Construction record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Excepter,
The Leaves,
Boz Scaggs,
Sister Nancy,
Yazoo,
Donald Byrd,
The Pretty Things,
Donny Hathaway,
Royal Trux,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sällskapet,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Massinfluence,
Lou Christie,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Amon Düül,
Animal Collective,
Marine Girls,
Crime,
Rotary Connection,
Minor Threat,
Das Ding,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Funky Four + One,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Flash Fearless,
Crispian St. Peters,
Aaron Thompson,
Mission of Burma,
Jandek,
Scan 7,
Cecil Taylor,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bill Wells,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Soft Cell,
The Skatalites,
The Smoke,
Rhythm & Sound,
U.S. Maple,
Cymande,
Ponytail,
Sight & Sound,
Crooked Eye,
Judy Mowatt,
Panda Bear,
Quantec,
The Moody Blues,
Fugazi,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Star Department,
Malaria!,
Arthur Verocai,
The Gladiators,
Slave,
The Smiths,
The Dave Clark Five,
Fear,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.