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 Indonesia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Donald Fagen 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 Bush Tetras to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo. All the underground hits.
All Hoover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bill Wells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Ponytail,
Kenny Larkin,
Robert Görl,
D'Angelo,
Barbara Tucker,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Happenings,
Eric B and Rakim,
Fugazi,
Warren Ellis,
Deakin,
June Days,
Yazoo,
Marine Girls,
Godley & Creme,
MC5,
Half Japanese,
Eric Dolphy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sun Ra,
Sight & Sound,
John Holt,
Lebanon Hanover,
Massinfluence,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Brothers Johnson,
Graham Central Station,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Martian,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Move,
Archie Shepp,
Monolake,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Desert Stars,
Gong,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
ABBA,
Soft Cell,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gichy Dan,
Charles Mingus,
Fela Kuti,
Supertramp,
Robert Hood,
kango's stein massive,
Pantaleimon,
Joey Negro,
Nick Fraelich,
Duran Duran,
Surgeon,
Oneida,
Iggy Pop,
Max Romeo,
the Bar-Kays,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Angels of Light,
Skriet,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
John Cale, John Cale, John Cale, John Cale.
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.