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 Spain and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Lou Reed 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 Barrington Levy to the jazz 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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All Boz Scaggs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Rekid,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Rod Modell,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Amon Düül II,
Moebius,
The Pop Group,
The Move,
Tubeway Army,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Yaz,
Skaos,
Guru Guru,
Ituana,
Young Marble Giants,
the Human League,
Marvin Gaye,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Icehouse,
The Grass Roots,
Pere Ubu,
Ice-T,
Robert Wyatt,
The Vogues,
Dark Day,
Ohio Players,
The Human League,
The Happenings,
Moss Icon,
The Saints,
The Moody Blues,
Oneida,
Jeff Mills,
Fugazi,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Jandek,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sunsets and Hearts,
OOIOO,
Al Stewart,
Warren Ellis,
the Bar-Kays,
Hashim,
Marc Almond,
Chris & Cosey,
Unwound,
Delon & Dalcan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Wasted Youth,
The Seeds,
Arcadia,
The Cowsills,
Mo-Dettes,
Delta 5,
Scott Walker,
Bobby Sherman,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sam Rivers,
Chris Corsano,
Stereo Dub,
Piero Umiliani,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Scientists,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.