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 Costa Rica and from Tehran.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Copenhagen.
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 snare 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 The Sound to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Absolute Body Control,
The Remains,
Crispy Ambulance,
Public Enemy,
Malaria!,
John Coltrane,
The Music Machine,
Alison Limerick,
Bang On A Can,
Black Flag,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Guru Guru,
The Walker Brothers,
Groovy Waters,
Zapp,
Aloha Tigers,
T. Rex,
Visage,
The Seeds,
ABBA,
Ituana,
Buzzcocks,
The Dirtbombs,
Mark Hollis,
Urselle,
Anakelly,
Nils Olav,
Joensuu 1685,
Tom Boy,
Echospace,
Gichy Dan,
the Normal,
CMW,
Aswad,
Joe Smooth,
Circle Jerks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Camberwell Now,
Roy Ayers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bootsy Collins,
Traffic Nightmare,
Robert Hood,
One Last Wish,
Rotary Connection,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Arthur Verocai,
Letta Mbulu,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Stiv Bators,
The Mummies,
Janne Schatter,
Delta 5,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.