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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 arpeggiator 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 Ten City to the punk 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 Harry Pussy. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mummies record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Goldenarms,
Negative Approach,
Pantytec,
Darondo,
Lower 48,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
John Coltrane,
Lakeside,
Neil Young,
Michelle Simonal,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pole,
Gang of Four,
The Fire Engines,
One Last Wish,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hardrive,
Livin' Joy,
kango's stein massive,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Colin Newman,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
World's Most,
Mission of Burma,
Absolute Body Control,
Cameo,
Thompson Twins,
Sister Nancy,
Desert Stars,
Aural Exciters,
10cc,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Patti Smith,
Nation of Ulysses,
Blake Baxter,
In Retrospect,
Tres Demented,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Leonard Cohen,
Steve Hackett,
Isaac Hayes,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Eli Mardock,
Roxy Music,
Oneida,
The Fuzztones,
Rakim,
Icehouse,
Joe Finger,
Sun Ra,
Country Teasers,
Anthony Braxton,
China Crisis,
KRS-One,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Unwound,
Little Man,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Suicide,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.