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 Australia and from Philadelphia.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Lou Reed 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 Avey Tare to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an oboe 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 sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Christie,
Negative Approach,
Avey Tare,
Bobby Sherman,
Fear,
Pharoah Sanders,
Jeff Mills,
Radiopuhelimet,
Von Mondo,
UT,
Moebius,
Public Image Ltd.,
Easy Going,
Ohio Players,
Cymande,
Rod Modell,
Sun Ra,
MDC,
Graham Central Station,
Motorama,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Electric Prunes,
Pantytec,
Spandau Ballet,
The Golliwogs,
Maleditus Sound,
Alphaville,
Cameo,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Dirtbombs,
Monks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fluxion,
Vladislav Delay,
New Order,
Anakelly,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Agent Orange,
Sound Behaviour,
Idris Muhammad,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Real Kids,
Kool Moe Dee,
Jesper Dahlback,
Buzzcocks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DJ Sneak,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Clear Light,
Minor Threat,
Ken Boothe,
Rapeman,
Index,
Interpol,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.