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 Cambodia and from Toronto.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Seoul.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ 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 Joyce Sims to the funk 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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vladislav Delay 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
David Axelrod,
Royal Trux,
June of 44,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Durutti Column,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sparks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Sound,
Subhumans,
Stetsasonic,
Silicon Teens,
Chrome,
The Black Dice,
Bad Manners,
Eli Mardock,
Morten Harket,
The Slits,
The Beau Brummels,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Zero Boys,
Audionom,
Clear Light,
Colin Newman,
AZ,
Alison Limerick,
Fatback Band,
Mandrill,
In Retrospect,
Matthew Halsall,
Vladislav Delay,
Robert Görl,
Roger Hodgson,
Kaleidoscope,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Can,
Rites of Spring,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Germs,
Sam Rivers,
Lightning Bolt,
Lungfish,
Boredoms,
Masters at Work,
The Associates,
Iggy Pop,
John Holt,
Erykah Badu,
Drive Like Jehu,
Neu!,
Franke,
Blancmange,
Ultravox,
Porter Ricks,
Bobby Womack,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
New Age Steppers,
Simply Red,
Depeche Mode,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.