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 Vanuatu and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Bang On A Can to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Black Pus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Section 25 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Quadrant,
Zero Boys,
The Names,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Country Joe & The Fish,
JFA,
Howard Jones,
Deepchord,
Newcleus,
Ken Boothe,
Funkadelic,
Judy Mowatt,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Litter,
Rotary Connection,
Anthony Braxton,
Supertramp,
Goldenarms,
Drexciya,
Sixth Finger,
Chris & Cosey,
Kurtis Blow,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Japan,
The Mojo Men,
Ohio Players,
Electric Prunes,
Tomorrow,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Morten Harket,
X-102,
Arcadia,
Angry Samoans,
Charles Mingus,
Godley & Creme,
Pantaleimon,
The Offenders,
LL Cool J,
cv313,
Nas,
Yellowson,
John Lydon,
Hasil Adkins,
B.T. Express,
The Smiths,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Soul Sonic Force,
Basic Channel,
Dual Sessions,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Crispian St. Peters,
Barclay James Harvest,
Colin Newman,
Big Daddy Kane,
A Certain Ratio,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Porter Ricks,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Dennis Brown,
Vladislav Delay,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.