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 Sri Lanka and from Jakarta.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Tres Demented to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blossom Toes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Duran Duran record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Hasil Adkins,
Banda Bassotti,
Nick Fraelich,
The Move,
Neu!,
Harry Pussy,
Electric Prunes,
Roxy Music,
Thompson Twins,
Funky Four + One,
Juan Atkins,
Brand Nubian,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sugar Minott,
Chris & Cosey,
Andrew Hill,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Misunderstood,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Trumans Water,
Negative Approach,
Stereo Dub,
Lightning Bolt,
Cal Tjader,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gichy Dan,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
T.S.O.L.,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Moody Blues,
The Techniques,
The Neon Judgement,
cv313,
Kenny Larkin,
ABC,
Rhythm & Sound,
New Order,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bob Dylan,
Funkadelic,
The Monochrome Set,
Colin Newman,
New Age Steppers,
Eric Copeland,
Rites of Spring,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Skriet,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Deadbeat,
Gong,
R.M.O.,
Goldenarms,
Jacques Brel,
Kaleidoscope,
La Düsseldorf,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Blackbyrds,
Fatback Band,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.