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 Armenia and from Glasgow.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Subhumans to the punk 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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Stiv Bators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sad Lovers and Giants 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Stereo Dub,
Bootsy Collins,
Kenny Larkin,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Vainqueur,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Urselle,
Siglo XX,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kevin Saunderson,
Anakelly,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Excepter,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ronan,
Youth Brigade,
Derrick May,
La Düsseldorf,
Joey Negro,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Deadbeat,
The United States of America,
Agitation Free,
Visage,
48th St. Collective,
Clear Light,
Darondo,
Roxy Music,
Patti Smith,
Panda Bear,
The Music Machine,
Mad Mike,
K-Klass,
The Knickerbockers,
Crispian St. Peters,
Black Moon,
The Moleskins,
June Days,
Lyres,
Half Japanese,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Seeds,
Joy Division,
Bob Dylan,
Accadde A,
Leonard Cohen,
Soul II Soul,
The Raincoats,
Jeff Mills,
Judy Mowatt,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The New Christs,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Shuggie Otis,
The Motions,
Cecil Taylor,
Hardrive,
Lee Hazlewood,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.