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 Netherlands and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Magazine to the grunge 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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All John Holt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Idris Muhammad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ten City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Jacob Miller,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cameo,
John Coltrane,
Bluetip,
Pere Ubu,
Flamin' Groovies,
Wally Richardson,
Can,
Adolescents,
Glenn Branca,
Hoover,
Niagra,
Tommy Roe,
Supertramp,
Anakelly,
Cecil Taylor,
Ornette Coleman,
Fad Gadget,
One Last Wish,
The Fuzztones,
Nick Fraelich,
Sexual Harrassment,
Q65,
Marshall Jefferson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Zapp,
Young Marble Giants,
The New Christs,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
KRS-One,
Flipper,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Roger Hodgson,
Nirvana,
Donald Byrd,
Scratch Acid,
Con Funk Shun,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gang Green,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kenny Larkin,
The Searchers,
The Monks,
Make Up,
Gerry Rafferty,
48th St. Collective,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Essential Logic,
The Real Kids,
Byron Stingily,
Inner City,
Letta Mbulu,
The Slackers,
Ten City,
Monks,
Sällskapet,
Carl Craig,
Stiv Bators,
Malaria!,
Black Bananas,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
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.