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 Israel and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Mexico City.
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 marimba 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 Monks to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Crime. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Tremeloes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Donald Byrd,
Barrington Levy,
PIL,
The American Breed,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sarah Menescal,
MDC,
Whodini,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Little Man,
Danielle Patucci,
Alice Coltrane,
Lalo Schifrin,
Jerry's Kids,
Throbbing Gristle,
Smog,
The Happenings,
Eli Mardock,
Radiohead,
DNA,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Raincoats,
Joe Smooth,
Ralphi Rosario,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Moss Icon,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Barracudas,
Scan 7,
The Busters,
Gang of Four,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Invisible,
Moebius,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Carl Craig,
Michelle Simonal,
Bill Near,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bronski Beat,
Black Moon,
Sixth Finger,
Adolescents,
Second Layer,
James Chance & The Contortions,
the Bar-Kays,
The Neon Judgement,
Colin Newman,
Crooked Eye,
Basic Channel,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Thompson Twins,
Neu!,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators.
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.