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 Cuba and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Michael McDonald 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 Funky Four + One to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Big Daddy Kane 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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?
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
cv313,
Gang Green,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Wings,
Make Up,
Joyce Sims,
The Star Department,
The Moleskins,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marcia Griffiths,
Dark Day,
Donny Hathaway,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Matthew Halsall,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Modern Lovers,
The J.B.'s,
Oneida,
Skaos,
The Sound,
Hasil Adkins,
New Order,
Stockholm Monsters,
Surgeon,
F. McDonald,
Unrelated Segments,
Lalo Schifrin,
Fela Kuti,
The Names,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Alton Ellis,
Alphaville,
Soulsonic Force,
Monolake,
Nik Kershaw,
Lou Christie,
the Germs,
Fugazi,
Bobby Womack,
Robert Görl,
Chris & Cosey,
Boz Scaggs,
Blossom Toes,
Cal Tjader,
kango's stein massive,
Pierre Henry,
Schoolly D,
Derrick May,
Don Cherry,
Barbara Tucker,
K-Klass,
Vainqueur,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Max Romeo,
The Gories,
Circle Jerks,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.