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 Senegal and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Sight & Sound to the dance 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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Animal Collective,
Fluxion,
LL Cool J,
Ultimate Spinach,
Alphaville,
Theoretical Girls,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Associates,
Jacques Brel,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Essential Logic,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Niagra,
Japan,
Donny Hathaway,
DJ Style,
Marine Girls,
Robert Hood,
Blancmange,
Black Pus,
Rosa Yemen,
Jandek,
David McCallum,
Absolute Body Control,
Von Mondo,
Cal Tjader,
Eden Ahbez,
MC5,
John Foxx,
Piero Umiliani,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Delta 5,
Pet Shop Boys,
Moss Icon,
The Grass Roots,
The Music Machine,
Lee Hazlewood,
Terrestrial Tones,
Althea and Donna,
The Mojo Men,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Leonard Cohen,
Kas Product,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Roxette,
Alice Coltrane,
Harmonia,
Newcleus,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Morten Harket,
Zapp,
X-101,
Franke,
Mr. Review,
Urselle,
The Walker Brothers,
Spandau Ballet,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade.
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.