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 Malaysia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 synthesizer 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 Laurel Aitken to the jazz 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Richard Hell and the Voidoids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lucky Dragons,
Scrapy,
Eden Ahbez,
Donny Hathaway,
Max Romeo,
The Tremeloes,
The United States of America,
Youth Brigade,
The Sonics,
Deepchord,
Pantytec,
Funkadelic,
the Bar-Kays,
Panda Bear,
Sun Ra,
PIL,
Camouflage,
Roxette,
Parry Music,
the Sonics,
The Gun Club,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Toni Rubio,
Alphaville,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
X-102,
Rhythm & Sound,
Patti Smith,
Johnny Osbourne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Index,
The Gap Band,
The Techniques,
The Knickerbockers,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Red Krayola,
Cymande,
Warren Ellis,
Mr. Review,
Bill Near,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
the Germs,
Reuben Wilson,
Bobby Womack,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Johnny Clarke,
Severed Heads,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jeff Mills,
Jacob Miller,
Flash Fearless,
The Gladiators,
Mark Hollis,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Cowsills,
Soul II Soul,
Sarah Menescal,
The Fire Engines,
B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express.
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.