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 Macedonia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Evens to the punk 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronnie Foster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Dead Boys,
Magma,
Von Mondo,
Niagra,
Jesper Dahlback,
Dennis Brown,
Roger Hodgson,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Guru Guru,
Can,
Archie Shepp,
The Star Department,
DJ Style,
Ohio Players,
Marc Almond,
Khruangbin,
Jacob Miller,
Angry Samoans,
Joey Negro,
Lee Hazlewood,
Pierre Henry,
Spoonie Gee,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Anthony Braxton,
Radio Birdman,
The Wake,
Schoolly D,
Brass Construction,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Symarip,
The Stooges,
Crispian St. Peters,
Eric B and Rakim,
Youth Brigade,
The Birthday Party,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Real Kids,
Kayak,
Bauhaus,
Skaos,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kenny Larkin,
Althea and Donna,
Kool Moe Dee,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Scan 7,
Gregory Isaacs,
Blossom Toes,
Alison Limerick,
Gichy Dan,
Alton Ellis,
Robert Hood,
Rod Modell,
Andrew Hill,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.