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 Cyprus and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 linndrum 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 Alton Ellis to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Harmonia. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Organ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blues Magoos,
Liliput,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Shadows of Knight,
Stockholm Monsters,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ultravox,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
the Sonics,
Ten City,
Young Marble Giants,
The Fortunes,
The Knickerbockers,
Minor Threat,
Aswad,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Rhythm & Sound,
kango's stein massive,
Rosa Yemen,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Surgeon,
Skaos,
Metal Thangz,
Von Mondo,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bluetip,
Lou Reed,
The Index,
Clear Light,
In Retrospect,
The Last Poets,
Kayak,
The Skatalites,
La Düsseldorf,
Reuben Wilson,
Stetsasonic,
The Pretty Things,
The Modern Lovers,
Kaleidoscope,
The Neon Judgement,
Gichy Dan,
Sällskapet,
Sight & Sound,
Tres Demented,
Alton Ellis,
Ornette Coleman,
The Fugs,
Sandy B,
Camouflage,
The Saints,
Al Stewart,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lyres,
Soul II Soul,
Barbara Tucker,
Y Pants,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Second Layer,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Hoover,
8 Eyed Spy,
David Bowie,
Ossler, Ossler, Ossler, Ossler.
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.