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 Finland and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Mexico City and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 arpeggiator 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 CMW to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All Terrestrial Tones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Stooges record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Leonard Cohen,
Sonny Sharrock,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Blancmange,
Sun Ra,
Lindisfarne,
Moebius,
Graham Central Station,
Joy Division,
The Wake,
Guru Guru,
The Knickerbockers,
The Sound,
Chris Corsano,
Peter & Gordon,
Sun City Girls,
ABC,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Techniques,
Morten Harket,
Drexciya,
X-102,
The Star Department,
Altered Images,
The Standells,
Darondo,
Minutemen,
Sixth Finger,
The Blackbyrds,
Marshall Jefferson,
Archie Shepp,
Tim Buckley,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Associates,
Kayak,
The Real Kids,
E-Dancer,
Anakelly,
Public Enemy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Funkadelic,
Tomorrow,
Radio Birdman,
Bobby Sherman,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Five Americans,
Rakim,
Fat Boys,
The Invisible,
Porter Ricks,
Ronnie Foster,
Scion,
Soulsonic Force,
ABBA,
Grey Daturas,
Monolake,
The Fire Engines,
Agent Orange,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.