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 Laos and from Winnipeg.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Dave Gahan to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Fort Wilson Riot. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sällskapet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
the Association,
Masters at Work,
The Monks,
June Days,
Sällskapet,
Flipper,
The Slackers,
The Gladiators,
Alton Ellis,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Arcadia,
The Neon Judgement,
Oneida,
Minny Pops,
Siglo XX,
Drexciya,
The Beau Brummels,
Liliput,
Jeff Lynne,
Kayak,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Searchers,
Maurizio,
The Wake,
Q and Not U,
Soulsonic Force,
Skriet,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Maleditus Sound,
the Fania All-Stars,
Joey Negro,
Junior Murvin,
Crooked Eye,
Flash Fearless,
Section 25,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Neu!,
The Count Five,
Zero Boys,
Howard Jones,
Pylon,
Inner City,
Pantaleimon,
The Names,
Cal Tjader,
Soul II Soul,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Donald Byrd,
Alison Limerick,
Swans,
EPMD,
Agitation Free,
Circle Jerks,
the Human League,
Derrick Morgan,
Marine Girls,
Grandmaster Flash,
Fugazi,
L. Decosne,
Hasil Adkins,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.