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 Austria and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Radiopuhelimet to the techno 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux. All the underground hits.
All Joey Negro tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
The Monochrome Set,
Lightning Bolt,
The Misunderstood,
Half Japanese,
Hardrive,
Faust,
Robert Görl,
LL Cool J,
Talk Talk,
Lebanon Hanover,
Connie Case,
Althea and Donna,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Idris Muhammad,
The Smoke,
Judy Mowatt,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rotary Connection,
The Knickerbockers,
Ice-T,
Tim Buckley,
Bill Wells,
Shoche,
The Smiths,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Infiniti,
Joe Smooth,
Thompson Twins,
Cecil Taylor,
Hoover,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Victims,
Colin Newman,
Freddie Wadling,
Alton Ellis,
Tubeway Army,
Lyres,
MC5,
The Dead C,
Anakelly,
Don Cherry,
ABBA,
Bush Tetras,
Stetsasonic,
Minnie Riperton,
David Axelrod,
Arab on Radar,
Zero Boys,
Gil Scott Heron,
Donald Byrd,
Ultravox,
Moby Grape,
Dawn Penn,
Faraquet,
The Angels of Light,
Anthony Braxton,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Shadows of Knight,
Boz Scaggs,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.