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 Suriname and from Copenhagen.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Soulsonic Force to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Frankie Knuckles tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Art Ensemble Of Chicago record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
The Red Krayola,
Joy Division,
The Flesh Eaters,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The New Christs,
Boogie Down Productions,
China Crisis,
Sunsets and Hearts,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Clear Light,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Darondo,
The Last Poets,
Yazoo,
Das Ding,
The Cramps,
Bootsy Collins,
48th St. Collective,
Harry Pussy,
Easy Going,
Echospace,
K-Klass,
Jandek,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Aloha Tigers,
The Doors,
Scan 7,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
John Holt,
Arcadia,
Pagans,
Derrick May,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Danielle Patucci,
Hasil Adkins,
The Gories,
Motorama,
Cameo,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Shoche,
The Golliwogs,
Jeff Lynne,
Pylon,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eric Copeland,
Tomorrow,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Chris & Cosey,
Public Image Ltd.,
Dennis Brown,
Moebius,
David Bowie,
The Moleskins,
The Pretty Things,
Pere Ubu,
Quantec,
The Angels of Light,
The Real Kids,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Barry Ungar,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.