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 Niger and from Woodstock.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 sitar 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 Moby Grape to the grime 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 D'Angelo. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every kango's stein massive 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
B.T. Express,
The Fall,
Gil Scott Heron,
Surgeon,
Scrapy,
Crash Course in Science,
Bob Dylan,
kango's stein massive,
Amon Düül II,
Funkadelic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Leonard Cohen,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Fania All-Stars,
Panda Bear,
Echospace,
Connie Case,
Bauhaus,
Inner City,
Scientists,
Absolute Body Control,
Joe Smooth,
Tropical Tobacco,
Dead Boys,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Colin Newman,
Urselle,
48th St. Collective,
Faust,
Ultimate Spinach,
Angry Samoans,
Infiniti,
Brothers Johnson,
The Searchers,
Pharoah Sanders,
Peter and Kerry,
Ohio Players,
Con Funk Shun,
The Five Americans,
The J.B.'s,
Janne Schatter,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Popol Vuh,
The Dave Clark Five,
Skarface,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Brass Construction,
Ice-T,
Das Ding,
Fatback Band,
The Divine Comedy,
Youth Brigade,
The Pop Group,
Andrew Hill,
The Black Dice,
Terry Callier,
Toni Rubio,
Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes.
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.