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 Afghanistan and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 David Bowie 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 Gastr Del Sol to the grime 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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Grass Roots,
Marshall Jefferson,
Moss Icon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Urselle,
Amazonics,
Black Moon,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
10cc,
Don Cherry,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kerri Chandler,
Guru Guru,
Johnny Osbourne,
Duran Duran,
The Angels of Light,
Rufus Thomas,
Dave Gahan,
The Kinks,
John Coltrane,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Niagra,
Black Sheep,
The Standells,
The Fall,
Vladislav Delay,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sandy B,
Tom Boy,
The Barracudas,
Sugar Minott,
Section 25,
Brand Nubian,
Gang Gang Dance,
Oneida,
Dennis Brown,
Eurythmics,
Underground Resistance,
Neil Young,
cv313,
Isaac Hayes,
The Flesh Eaters,
Blake Baxter,
Marmalade,
Albert Ayler,
Alton Ellis,
Fad Gadget,
Ponytail,
Kool Moe Dee,
Davy DMX,
Circle Jerks,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Saints,
Todd Rundgren,
The Vogues,
T. Rex,
Slave,
DJ Sneak,
Big Daddy Kane,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Brick,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.