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 Marshall Islands and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 marimba 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 Rod Modell to the disco 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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Simply Red record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Blancmange,
Kas Product,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Animal Collective,
AZ,
Hashim,
Dennis Brown,
Parry Music,
The Star Department,
Robert Hood,
Easy Going,
Lucky Dragons,
The Wake,
Carl Craig,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Skaos,
Swell Maps,
Icehouse,
Soulsonic Force,
Joey Negro,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Marshall Jefferson,
Donny Hathaway,
Clear Light,
Albert Ayler,
Loose Ends,
Max Romeo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Man Parrish,
The Real Kids,
Todd Rundgren,
Sun City Girls,
Oblivians,
Au Pairs,
Wings,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Shoche,
Letta Mbulu,
Barrington Levy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pet Shop Boys,
Neu!,
Mo-Dettes,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
48th St. Collective,
Ultravox,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ituana,
Jeff Mills,
Jacques Brel,
the Fania All-Stars,
Avey Tare,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Malaria!,
Outsiders,
DJ Style,
Crispian St. Peters,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.