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 Macedonia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Jerry's Kids to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Morten Harket record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Five Americans,
Minny Pops,
Black Flag,
Radiopuhelimet,
Danielle Patucci,
Smog,
Don Cherry,
The Angels of Light,
Pylon,
Thompson Twins,
Spandau Ballet,
Crooked Eye,
Popol Vuh,
Rosa Yemen,
June Days,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sällskapet,
Minor Threat,
Morten Harket,
Arcadia,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Q and Not U,
Nils Olav,
Von Mondo,
Lou Christie,
The Real Kids,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
New York Dolls,
The Durutti Column,
Jeff Mills,
New Order,
Ultravox,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Toni Rubio,
The Last Poets,
Henry Cow,
Talk Talk,
Jawbox,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Associates,
Barry Ungar,
The Victims,
Davy DMX,
The Fire Engines,
Grauzone,
Surgeon,
Blossom Toes,
Monolake,
Cymande,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Cheater Slicks,
Bill Near,
the Sonics,
The Techniques,
Dual Sessions,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Skarface,
Crash Course in Science,
Grey Daturas,
Lower 48,
Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson.
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.