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 Luxembourg and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Rapeman to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vladislav Delay record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
KRS-One,
Isaac Hayes,
Jawbox,
Funky Four + One,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Slits,
Goldenarms,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lou Reed,
The Blackbyrds,
Yellowson,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Gories,
Guru Guru,
Tubeway Army,
Toni Rubio,
Arab on Radar,
New Age Steppers,
Mantronix,
David Bowie,
a-ha,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jeff Mills,
Kenny Larkin,
Marmalade,
Minnie Riperton,
Jesper Dahlback,
Quadrant,
Peter and Kerry,
Outsiders,
D'Angelo,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Brothers Johnson,
Wire,
The Count Five,
The Angels of Light,
The Misunderstood,
Mark Hollis,
Harry Pussy,
The Electric Prunes,
The Index,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Black Moon,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Suicide,
Cybotron,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lakeside,
Lucky Dragons,
In Retrospect,
The Durutti Column,
Mission of Burma,
OOIOO,
The Detroit Cobras,
Morten Harket,
The Pretty Things,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Crispy Ambulance,
It's A Beautiful Day,
New York Dolls,
Animal Collective,
Blancmange,
Negative Approach,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.