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 Croatia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 KRS-One to the funk 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 Livin' Joy. All the underground hits.
All Masters at Work tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Selecter,
AZ,
Hardrive,
Alison Limerick,
The Index,
Nation of Ulysses,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Zero Boys,
The Doors,
The Kinks,
Thompson Twins,
Gastr Del Sol,
Anakelly,
Nils Olav,
Gil Scott Heron,
Flipper,
Quadrant,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Toasters,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Moss Icon,
Ituana,
The Electric Prunes,
Arthur Verocai,
David Bowie,
ABBA,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eli Mardock,
Minny Pops,
Derrick Morgan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lalann,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Infiniti,
Fad Gadget,
Kaleidoscope,
Lakeside,
One Last Wish,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Traffic Nightmare,
Howard Jones,
KRS-One,
The Sound,
Supertramp,
The Saints,
Ice-T,
Blancmange,
Hasil Adkins,
Pole,
The Alarm Clocks,
Das Ding,
Circle Jerks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Pantaleimon,
The Last Poets,
Accadde A,
Minutemen,
Lightning Bolt,
Au Pairs,
The Dead C,
Jeff Mills,
Symarip,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.