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 Italy and from Tehran.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Robert Palmer 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 Symarip to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Johnny Osbourne. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marshall Jefferson 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
The Smoke,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Moebius,
Slave,
Terry Callier,
Joe Finger,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Toasters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Black Moon,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Dual Sessions,
Young Marble Giants,
Khruangbin,
Outsiders,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Bar-Kays,
Unwound,
Trumans Water,
Clear Light,
Junior Murvin,
Surgeon,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Curtis Mayfield,
Thompson Twins,
Lalann,
Godley & Creme,
Echospace,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
R.M.O.,
Crime,
Smog,
The Litter,
Essential Logic,
Eric B and Rakim,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Shadows of Knight,
Icehouse,
Harry Pussy,
Wire,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Minutemen,
The Trojans,
Iggy Pop,
Kayak,
Pharoah Sanders,
Rhythm & Sound,
Alison Limerick,
Piero Umiliani,
Amon Düül II,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Suburban Knight,
Alton Ellis,
Al Stewart,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Pagans,
Au Pairs,
Sex Pistols,
Rufus Thomas,
Deadbeat,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.