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 Belize and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 guitar 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Men They Couldn't Hang 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythm & Sound,
Pharoah Sanders,
48th St. Collective,
Robert Wyatt,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Cheater Slicks,
Roy Ayers,
The Seeds,
Basic Channel,
Minnie Riperton,
Ultra Naté,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Thee Headcoats,
Reagan Youth,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
a-ha,
MDC,
Matthew Bourne,
Stiv Bators,
Laurel Aitken,
Todd Terry,
Darondo,
Surgeon,
Gregory Isaacs,
Black Flag,
Intrusion,
Index,
Piero Umiliani,
Von Mondo,
The Golliwogs,
Bill Wells,
Oneida,
Sixth Finger,
Y Pants,
Amon Düül II,
Dual Sessions,
Qualms,
Arthur Verocai,
Echospace,
The Searchers,
The Fuzztones,
Quando Quango,
Avey Tare,
The Young Rascals,
The Motions,
Second Layer,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sonny Sharrock,
Robert Görl,
K-Klass,
The Mummies,
The Vogues,
Alison Limerick,
Public Image Ltd.,
Dave Gahan,
Eric Dolphy,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Red Krayola,
Fad Gadget,
The Zeros,
Nils Olav,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.