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 Singapore and from Accra.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Cybotron to the rock 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 The Stooges. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kurtis Blow,
Magazine,
The Red Krayola,
The Fugs,
Black Bananas,
D'Angelo,
Aural Exciters,
The Smoke,
The Remains,
Dead Boys,
Hot Snakes,
Talk Talk,
Man Parrish,
Marc Almond,
X-101,
Idris Muhammad,
The Trojans,
The Gladiators,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Music Machine,
Nick Fraelich,
U.S. Maple,
Barclay James Harvest,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lou Christie,
Lightning Bolt,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Smog,
Shuggie Otis,
Surgeon,
Absolute Body Control,
Eric Copeland,
the Soft Cell,
Mark Hollis,
The Grass Roots,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pulsallama,
Charles Mingus,
Brick,
Nico,
Tommy Roe,
The Velvet Underground,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Roxette,
Scan 7,
Malaria!,
Bobby Byrd,
June of 44,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Monks,
Gang of Four,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bizarre Inc.,
Barry Ungar,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rekid,
Echospace,
Iggy Pop,
Buzzcocks,
Bobby Womack,
Black Moon,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.