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 Monaco and from Columbus.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Juan Atkins to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All These Immortal Souls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Juan Atkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Groovy Waters,
Blossom Toes,
Sarah Menescal,
Mark Hollis,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Grauzone,
Mandrill,
Sound Behaviour,
The Gories,
Electric Prunes,
The Kinks,
Harry Pussy,
The Cowsills,
Bronski Beat,
The Knickerbockers,
Con Funk Shun,
EPMD,
This Heat,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Yusef Lateef,
U.S. Maple,
Funky Four + One,
Aloha Tigers,
Pussy Galore,
Gil Scott Heron,
cv313,
Hot Snakes,
James White and The Blacks,
Max Romeo,
Fear,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Wake,
Yaz,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kas Product,
Colin Newman,
Graham Central Station,
Kayak,
Motorama,
Q65,
Eric Copeland,
Tomorrow,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Skatalites,
Half Japanese,
Visage,
The Monochrome Set,
Bill Near,
Schoolly D,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Dave Clark Five,
Mr. Review,
Al Stewart,
The Mummies,
Roxy Music,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bootsy Collins,
the Normal,
Boz Scaggs,
Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion.
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.