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 Mongolia and from Woodstock.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Joe Finger to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish. All the underground hits.
All Isaac Hayes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Modern Lovers,
The Stooges,
Black Flag,
Nik Kershaw,
Dave Gahan,
Janne Schatter,
Whodini,
Ash Ra Tempel,
CMW,
Soft Machine,
Oneida,
Can,
The Remains,
The Buckinghams,
Brass Construction,
Yellowson,
Main Source,
the Bar-Kays,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Todd Terry,
Symarip,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Delon & Dalcan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Swans,
Banda Bassotti,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gabor Szabo,
Hasil Adkins,
Liliput,
Funky Four + One,
Flipper,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
This Heat,
The Misunderstood,
Ultra Naté,
Little Man,
Lalo Schifrin,
John Holt,
Brothers Johnson,
Swans,
The Gladiators,
The Cowsills,
Porter Ricks,
Bill Near,
Underground Resistance,
Mantronix,
Scientists,
John Cale,
Alton Ellis,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Grauzone,
The Index,
The Gap Band,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Shoche,
Franke,
Technova,
Q and Not U,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Moss Icon,
Public Enemy,
Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes.
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.