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 Iceland and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 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 Jerry's Kids to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective 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 electroclash 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 rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grauzone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Davy DMX,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Donny Hathaway,
The Fall,
Graham Central Station,
Groovy Waters,
Warren Ellis,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Radiohead,
Mandrill,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Flash Fearless,
The Skatalites,
Cheater Slicks,
Connie Case,
Hoover,
The Alarm Clocks,
Vladislav Delay,
Alphaville,
Organ,
The Martian,
Outsiders,
Tim Buckley,
Mo-Dettes,
Jacob Miller,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gang Starr,
Robert Hood,
The Dirtbombs,
Dave Gahan,
The Last Poets,
Franke,
Eurythmics,
Jandek,
Hasil Adkins,
Agitation Free,
Robert Görl,
Pussy Galore,
Gichy Dan,
Ten City,
Erasure,
The Searchers,
Bobby Womack,
Public Image Ltd.,
Nick Fraelich,
Joey Negro,
Tubeway Army,
Kaleidoscope,
Peter & Gordon,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Yusef Lateef,
Glenn Branca,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Girls At Our Best!,
Funkadelic,
Mark Hollis,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.