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 Vanuatu and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Magazine to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Con Funk Shun. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Can,
Skarface,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ludus,
The Slackers,
Funkadelic,
Rod Modell,
Lungfish,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Minutemen,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
In Retrospect,
Urselle,
Drexciya,
The Shadows of Knight,
New Age Steppers,
The Beau Brummels,
Pussy Galore,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Five Americans,
Cameo,
Juan Atkins,
Bootsy Collins,
Robert Hood,
The Mojo Men,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ralphi Rosario,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
This Heat,
The Birthday Party,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Boz Scaggs,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Fela Kuti,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gil Scott Heron,
Crispian St. Peters,
Janne Schatter,
Nick Fraelich,
Nirvana,
Grey Daturas,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Average White Band,
DJ Sneak,
Ten City,
June Days,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Procol Harum,
Roy Ayers,
Quando Quango,
The Dead C,
Ituana,
The Saints,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
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.