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 Finland and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Woodstock.
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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Barracudas to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Carl Craig,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Erasure,
Iggy Pop,
Saccharine Trust,
Black Flag,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Wings,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Make Up,
Niagra,
Jerry's Kids,
The Tremeloes,
Pagans,
Chrome,
Amon Düül II,
Smog,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Eurythmics,
Isaac Hayes,
Blossom Toes,
Japan,
Eric Copeland,
Public Enemy,
Suburban Knight,
The Mojo Men,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jeff Mills,
The Happenings,
The Blackbyrds,
B.T. Express,
Oneida,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sunsets and Hearts,
MDC,
Animal Collective,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lou Christie,
Danielle Patucci,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Alphaville,
Basic Channel,
Lindisfarne,
Laurel Aitken,
Grauzone,
Negative Approach,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Count Five,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Stiv Bators,
Angry Samoans,
The Slackers,
the Germs,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Sonics,
Ituana,
The Motions,
Kerri Chandler,
The United States of America,
The Durutti Column,
Letta Mbulu,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.