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 Milan.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Gang of Four to the punk 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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
Joyce Sims,
Ituana,
Kerrie Biddell,
Minutemen,
The Wake,
Banda Bassotti,
The Walker Brothers,
Surgeon,
The Remains,
The Fuzztones,
Aural Exciters,
Leonard Cohen,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ice-T,
Organ,
The Smiths,
The Star Department,
Quando Quango,
Excepter,
Dawn Penn,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Victims,
Don Cherry,
Shoche,
The Human League,
Pantaleimon,
Nik Kershaw,
Schoolly D,
Hardrive,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The J.B.'s,
Tubeway Army,
D'Angelo,
10cc,
Avey Tare,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Names,
Freddie Wadling,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Accadde A,
Scott Walker,
the Association,
Sam Rivers,
kango's stein massive,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Alarm Clocks,
Loose Ends,
Monks,
The Grass Roots,
A Certain Ratio,
These Immortal Souls,
Laurel Aitken,
MDC,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Toasters,
Los Fastidios,
John Cale,
Supertramp,
Iggy Pop,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.