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 Brunei and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Philadelphia.
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 clarinet 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 Arab on Radar to the funk 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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Move record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Animal Collective,
Dennis Brown,
Fatback Band,
KRS-One,
The Smiths,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bad Manners,
Bang On A Can,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gichy Dan,
Cal Tjader,
Depeche Mode,
Agitation Free,
Chris & Cosey,
Can,
U.S. Maple,
The Barracudas,
Excepter,
Tubeway Army,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Cramps,
The Beau Brummels,
Au Pairs,
Funky Four + One,
Gang Green,
Black Sheep,
James White and The Blacks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joe Smooth,
Spoonie Gee,
The Detroit Cobras,
Severed Heads,
Fear,
The Gap Band,
Barry Ungar,
Robert Görl,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Boz Scaggs,
The Happenings,
Duran Duran,
The Techniques,
MC5,
T.S.O.L.,
Angry Samoans,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Blues Magoos,
Janne Schatter,
Michelle Simonal,
The Durutti Column,
the Germs,
Blancmange,
Clear Light,
Maleditus Sound,
Skaos,
Khruangbin,
The Modern Lovers,
Intrusion,
The Index,
Arthur Verocai,
The New Christs,
The Searchers,
Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon.
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.