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 Laos and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 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 Leonard Cohen to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lou Reed. All the underground hits.
All Connie Case tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott Heron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a LL Cool J record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
Janne Schatter,
Buzzcocks,
Sun City Girls,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Josef K,
The Techniques,
The Grass Roots,
Carl Craig,
Trumans Water,
Erykah Badu,
Stockholm Monsters,
Blossom Toes,
Sällskapet,
Joe Smooth,
Dawn Penn,
Sun Ra,
The Saints,
Dave Gahan,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hardrive,
Severed Heads,
Surgeon,
The Human League,
New Order,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Real Kids,
Wire,
Fad Gadget,
The Mummies,
Ornette Coleman,
The Fall,
Cameo,
the Fania All-Stars,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Funky Four + One,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Davy DMX,
This Heat,
Y Pants,
Little Man,
Barbara Tucker,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Desert Stars,
Lalo Schifrin,
JFA,
Robert Görl,
The Detroit Cobras,
Arcadia,
Crispian St. Peters,
Leonard Cohen,
Joensuu 1685,
Nas,
Marmalade,
Lakeside,
Avey Tare,
Godley & Creme,
Animal Collective,
Whodini, Whodini, Whodini, Whodini.
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.