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 Thailand and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Holger Czukay 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 Flipper to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Lee Hazlewood. All the underground hits.
All Barrington Levy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gastr Del Sol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sound,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jeff Mills,
The Remains,
Joe Finger,
8 Eyed Spy,
Kayak,
Sound Behaviour,
Bill Near,
Black Bananas,
Iggy Pop,
Duran Duran,
Gil Scott Heron,
Peter & Gordon,
Erykah Badu,
Sister Nancy,
Outsiders,
Trumans Water,
Derrick May,
Scrapy,
The Litter,
Lungfish,
Monks,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Glenn Branca,
Kevin Saunderson,
Interpol,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Neil Young,
Grey Daturas,
The Moody Blues,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Derrick Morgan,
The Angels of Light,
Motorama,
Delta 5,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soul Sonic Force,
Al Stewart,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jeff Lynne,
Siglo XX,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Toasters,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sonic Youth,
Leonard Cohen,
Matthew Bourne,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Todd Rundgren,
Icehouse,
Vladislav Delay,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
World's Most,
Lebanon Hanover,
Throbbing Gristle,
10cc,
Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work.
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.