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 Zambia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 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 Amon Düül II to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Walker Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Camouflage,
Smog,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Swans,
Leonard Cohen,
CMW,
Gil Scott Heron,
Blake Baxter,
Bill Wells,
Fifty Foot Hose,
DNA,
U.S. Maple,
Zero Boys,
Bill Near,
Charles Mingus,
Alphaville,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Arab on Radar,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Eden Ahbez,
Circle Jerks,
Flash Fearless,
Tim Buckley,
Joe Smooth,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bobby Byrd,
Negative Approach,
A Flock of Seagulls,
David Axelrod,
Juan Atkins,
the Normal,
Faust,
Quadrant,
EPMD,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pantytec,
Metal Thangz,
Byron Stingily,
Todd Rundgren,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sugar Minott,
Sun City Girls,
The Angels of Light,
FM Einheit,
Inner City,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Franke,
Crispy Ambulance,
Albert Ayler,
Robert Wyatt,
Index,
Kas Product,
Blossom Toes,
Masters at Work,
This Heat,
Ludus,
Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra.
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.