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 St Lucia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Marine Girls to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Wake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fall,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Leaves,
Lightning Bolt,
Delon & Dalcan,
Q65,
Neil Young,
Cameo,
Sixth Finger,
Cybotron,
L. Decosne,
The Doobie Brothers,
Faust,
Ponytail,
Siglo XX,
Skaos,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Agitation Free,
Big Daddy Kane,
Marvin Gaye,
The Toasters,
The Golliwogs,
Prince Buster,
The Blues Magoos,
Toni Rubio,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Throbbing Gristle,
Duran Duran,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rapeman,
Gang Green,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DNA,
Andrew Hill,
Skriet,
Au Pairs,
Joyce Sims,
Rites of Spring,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Idris Muhammad,
Sam Rivers,
X-Ray Spex,
Donny Hathaway,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Drexciya,
The Martian,
Bill Wells,
Kaleidoscope,
Ultimate Spinach,
John Coltrane,
48th St. Collective,
Basic Channel,
Heaven 17,
MC5,
The Modern Lovers,
Porter Ricks,
The Shadows of Knight,
The United States of America,
Yazoo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.