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 Belarus and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Hasil Adkins to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Associates. All the underground hits.
All Kerri Chandler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
Skarface,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bluetip,
Funky Four + One,
The Fuzztones,
Newcleus,
These Immortal Souls,
Tears for Fears,
The Gories,
cv313,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Gap Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Velvet Underground,
Sexual Harrassment,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Quantec,
The Busters,
Zapp,
Roxy Music,
June Days,
kango's stein massive,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Infiniti,
World's Most,
Kevin Saunderson,
Al Stewart,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Johnny Clarke,
Joensuu 1685,
Jeru the Damaja,
Make Up,
Public Enemy,
Susan Cadogan,
Stetsasonic,
Q65,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Saccharine Trust,
Lungfish,
Nick Fraelich,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Hot Snakes,
The Fortunes,
Basic Channel,
The Young Rascals,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Invisible,
Eurythmics,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Althea and Donna,
The Human League,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Echospace,
Pantaleimon,
Lightning Bolt,
Technova,
Traffic Nightmare,
Procol Harum,
Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms.
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.