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 Gambia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro 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 Johnny Clarke to the techno 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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All It's A Beautiful Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Panda Bear,
Rekid,
Nation of Ulysses,
Matthew Bourne,
Joensuu 1685,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bizarre Inc.,
Delta 5,
Underground Resistance,
John Foxx,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The United States of America,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Little Man,
Jandek,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cheater Slicks,
Second Layer,
Tim Buckley,
David Bowie,
Khruangbin,
Franke,
Gong,
Motorama,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ronnie Foster,
Half Japanese,
Sound Behaviour,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Girls At Our Best!,
Joe Smooth,
Toni Rubio,
Davy DMX,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Dead C,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lower 48,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Aloha Tigers,
Tropical Tobacco,
Television,
Sällskapet,
Q65,
The Fortunes,
Cluster,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Theoretical Girls,
the Bar-Kays,
Accadde A,
Marc Almond,
Gang Gang Dance,
Nik Kershaw,
A Certain Ratio,
Drexciya,
Juan Atkins,
Sugar Minott,
The Dirtbombs,
David Axelrod,
The Human League,
Black Bananas,
Danielle Patucci,
Gregory Isaacs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.