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 Ukraine and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Yaz to the jazz 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 Jesper Dahlback. All the underground hits.
All T. Rex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Banda Bassotti 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
Drive Like Jehu,
Theoretical Girls,
Wolf Eyes,
48th St. Collective,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Model 500,
Sarah Menescal,
Index,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Aswad,
Nation of Ulysses,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Young Rascals,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Organ,
Susan Cadogan,
Ornette Coleman,
Youth Brigade,
Cybotron,
Lyres,
Black Pus,
Eve St. Jones,
Ossler,
Al Stewart,
Sandy B,
Spoonie Gee,
Kerrie Biddell,
Boogie Down Productions,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Q65,
Mandrill,
Massinfluence,
Shoche,
Mantronix,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Blackbyrds,
Pantytec,
Joey Negro,
Pharoah Sanders,
Faraquet,
Thompson Twins,
Heaven 17,
Barry Ungar,
the Association,
Gang Gang Dance,
Agent Orange,
the Human League,
Robert Wyatt,
Drexciya,
The Pop Group,
Henry Cow,
Flipper,
Peter and Kerry,
Alice Coltrane,
Q and Not U,
The Monks,
PIL,
The Shadows of Knight,
AZ,
Gichy Dan,
Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson.
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.