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 Bulgaria and from Milan.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ 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 Aswad 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 The Move. All the underground hits.
All Susan Cadogan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Womack record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Popol Vuh,
Mars,
Q and Not U,
Jandek,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Echospace,
Bobby Byrd,
Jeru the Damaja,
Chris Corsano,
Eurythmics,
The Kinks,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Quantec,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Knickerbockers,
Inner City,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Essential Logic,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Mary Jane Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Average White Band,
Newcleus,
Hardrive,
Gregory Isaacs,
L. Decosne,
Flash Fearless,
Matthew Bourne,
Fugazi,
Section 25,
Radiopuhelimet,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The United States of America,
PIL,
kango's stein massive,
Josef K,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Althea and Donna,
Tom Boy,
Absolute Body Control,
cv313,
Fat Boys,
Robert Görl,
Throbbing Gristle,
John Coltrane,
The Beau Brummels,
Lightning Bolt,
Procol Harum,
MDC,
Metal Thangz,
Monolake,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Mission of Burma,
Blossom Toes,
Skarface,
Bill Wells,
The Index,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.