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 Monaco and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Crime to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Hoover. All the underground hits.
All Pussy Galore tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
The Cramps,
the Soft Cell,
Glambeats Corp.,
Japan,
Pantytec,
Harry Pussy,
Matthew Halsall,
Sonic Youth,
Donald Byrd,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Dennis Brown,
Moby Grape,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Peter & Gordon,
The Fall,
Altered Images,
Eddi Front,
Ronnie Foster,
Animal Collective,
Todd Terry,
Quadrant,
Infiniti,
ABBA,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The United States of America,
Gastr Del Sol,
Procol Harum,
Jacques Brel,
Suicide,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Q65,
Icehouse,
The Five Americans,
Arcadia,
Bobby Womack,
Kerrie Biddell,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Robert Görl,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Trojans,
Vainqueur,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Khruangbin,
Mandrill,
Jeff Lynne,
Flash Fearless,
Excepter,
Fugazi,
Derrick May,
Pantaleimon,
Main Source,
Henry Cow,
Siglo XX,
Tim Buckley,
Charles Mingus,
The Monochrome Set,
Junior Murvin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Outsiders,
Metal Thangz,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Fat Boys, Fat Boys, Fat Boys, Fat Boys.
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.