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 Eritrea and from Sao Paulo.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 harpsichord 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 The Blackbyrds to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tim Buckley record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Circle Jerks,
Tom Boy,
The Dave Clark Five,
Scrapy,
Quantec,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The American Breed,
10cc,
Sun City Girls,
Sun Ra,
The Toasters,
Marmalade,
The Motions,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
New York Dolls,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Wings,
Man Eating Sloth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Metal Thangz,
Terry Callier,
Isaac Hayes,
Make Up,
The Monochrome Set,
Anthony Braxton,
Soul Sonic Force,
A Certain Ratio,
Little Man,
Q and Not U,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pussy Galore,
Franke,
Ultra Naté,
The Walker Brothers,
Underground Resistance,
Jacques Brel,
Dual Sessions,
The Pop Group,
Surgeon,
Johnny Osbourne,
cv313,
Soulsonic Force,
Easy Going,
Vainqueur,
Fugazi,
Banda Bassotti,
The Dirtbombs,
Sällskapet,
Sonic Youth,
Talk Talk,
Lucky Dragons,
Sight & Sound,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Newcleus,
Mo-Dettes,
Hasil Adkins,
Heaven 17,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Flash Fearless,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.