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 Serbia and from Beijing.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Shuggie Otis. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
Dawn Penn,
UT,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
T. Rex,
Flamin' Groovies,
Tubeway Army,
Drexciya,
Cabaret Voltaire,
D'Angelo,
PIL,
Marvin Gaye,
Wasted Youth,
Lucky Dragons,
Television,
Hot Snakes,
Steve Hackett,
Basic Channel,
The Durutti Column,
Khruangbin,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Skaos,
Qualms,
Shuggie Otis,
These Immortal Souls,
Au Pairs,
The Black Dice,
Tommy Roe,
Boredoms,
The Raincoats,
Ten City,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
a-ha,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Mark Hollis,
Cameo,
Mad Mike,
Motorama,
Delta 5,
Scan 7,
Slave,
The Sound,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Zeros,
Eurythmics,
Joyce Sims,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ronan,
Toni Rubio,
Amon Düül,
Curtis Mayfield,
Warren Ellis,
Mo-Dettes,
The Seeds,
Boogie Down Productions,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jeff Lynne,
Letta Mbulu,
Ohio Players,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Suicide,
Hashim,
The Gladiators,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.