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 Uruguay and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 güiro 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 Liliput to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
Arcadia,
Maurizio,
Sparks,
Bad Manners,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eden Ahbez,
the Soft Cell,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Barrington Levy,
The Last Poets,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jandek,
F. McDonald,
Angry Samoans,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pierre Henry,
Andrew Hill,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Evens,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bizarre Inc.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Avey Tare,
Crash Course in Science,
Nico,
Trumans Water,
Black Flag,
Fad Gadget,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Gong,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Five Americans,
Gang Green,
Danielle Patucci,
Lou Reed,
The Happenings,
Ituana,
China Crisis,
Wire,
Model 500,
Amon Düül,
Gang Starr,
Wings,
The Fortunes,
The Offenders,
Eli Mardock,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Golliwogs,
Sarah Menescal,
Girls At Our Best!,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Hasil Adkins,
Nirvana,
Basic Channel,
Jawbox,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.