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 Iceland and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tehran.
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 harpsichord 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 The Young Rascals to the techno 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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Holt 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fall,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
cv313,
The Selecter,
Sight & Sound,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Moleskins,
Susan Cadogan,
Scratch Acid,
the Fania All-Stars,
Gang of Four,
Angry Samoans,
The Velvet Underground,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Moody Blues,
T. Rex,
JFA,
Nils Olav,
Alphaville,
The American Breed,
Pierre Henry,
The Gap Band,
The Human League,
The Wake,
Max Romeo,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Index,
The Doors,
Freddie Wadling,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Red Krayola,
The Dirtbombs,
Peter and Kerry,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Wire,
Rod Modell,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Grass Roots,
Japan,
Joe Smooth,
Liliput,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alton Ellis,
Adolescents,
Fat Boys,
Los Fastidios,
Rakim,
Morten Harket,
Quando Quango,
Yusef Lateef,
Talk Talk,
Yaz,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bobby Sherman,
Idris Muhammad,
Michelle Simonal,
Hoover,
Babytalk,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.