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 Mauritius and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Organ to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Derrick Morgan,
The Fire Engines,
The Techniques,
David McCallum,
Dead Boys,
Oblivians,
Danielle Patucci,
Skarface,
Malaria!,
Traffic Nightmare,
Royal Trux,
Sarah Menescal,
Erasure,
Freddie Wadling,
Groovy Waters,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Alison Limerick,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lakeside,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sugar Minott,
Angry Samoans,
Whodini,
Gang Starr,
Flamin' Groovies,
Saccharine Trust,
Negative Approach,
Spoonie Gee,
Scott Walker,
Grauzone,
The Five Americans,
Barry Ungar,
Don Cherry,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Shoche,
FM Einheit,
Alice Coltrane,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
OOIOO,
Joe Finger,
Duran Duran,
Lou Christie,
AZ,
Banda Bassotti,
Y Pants,
Ken Boothe,
ABBA,
Radiopuhelimet,
Slave,
Roger Hodgson,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Peter & Gordon,
The Standells,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Saints,
Brand Nubian,
Maleditus Sound,
The Fall,
Public Enemy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.