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 Armenia and from Lagos.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Harry Pussy to the rock 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 The Offenders. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Danielle Patucci 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
Radiohead,
Half Japanese,
Massinfluence,
Sonic Youth,
Lalo Schifrin,
Maurizio,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Magma,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Tom Boy,
Underground Resistance,
CMW,
MC5,
Sällskapet,
The Sound,
Don Cherry,
The Associates,
The Offenders,
The Gladiators,
New York Dolls,
Yellowson,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Smoke,
Nico,
Accadde A,
ABBA,
John Foxx,
Eden Ahbez,
Surgeon,
Unrelated Segments,
The Human League,
Robert Görl,
Siglo XX,
Anakelly,
The Skatalites,
Ultra Naté,
The Golliwogs,
The United States of America,
Junior Murvin,
Ponytail,
Hoover,
Bang On A Can,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Grauzone,
Swell Maps,
Japan,
Flipper,
The Fall,
Crooked Eye,
Tim Buckley,
Eddi Front,
Chrome,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Neon Judgement,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Cameo,
The Smiths,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig.
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.