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 Samoa and from Jakarta.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Robert Görl to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deadbeat 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
The Searchers,
Underground Resistance,
Joyce Sims,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Piero Umiliani,
UT,
Boz Scaggs,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Urselle,
Ken Boothe,
The Fugs,
Bill Wells,
D'Angelo,
Flipper,
Todd Terry,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
KRS-One,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barbara Tucker,
The Techniques,
Los Fastidios,
Fela Kuti,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Five Americans,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Little Man,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Kerrie Biddell,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gang Starr,
Jimmy McGriff,
Shuggie Otis,
Quando Quango,
DNA,
Negative Approach,
The Leaves,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Supertramp,
DJ Style,
Jawbox,
Freddie Wadling,
The Seeds,
Oblivians,
Peter and Kerry,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Hasil Adkins,
Ultravox,
Colin Newman,
Young Marble Giants,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Bronski Beat,
Con Funk Shun,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Marvin Gaye,
Al Stewart,
Kenny Larkin,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Golliwogs,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.