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 Grenada and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 sitar 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the rap 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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Big Daddy Kane,
Flash Fearless,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Scratch Acid,
Harry Pussy,
Hasil Adkins,
Inner City,
Buzzcocks,
The Grass Roots,
Idris Muhammad,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Stockholm Monsters,
X-102,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Icehouse,
Moby Grape,
Charles Mingus,
Royal Trux,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
ABC,
The Last Poets,
The Durutti Column,
Bobby Byrd,
Pharoah Sanders,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Infiniti,
The Gories,
Simply Red,
Yazoo,
Jandek,
The Beau Brummels,
Gerry Rafferty,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sonic Youth,
Mark Hollis,
Alice Coltrane,
Lower 48,
Skaos,
The Slackers,
Faust,
Soul Sonic Force,
Amon Düül,
Boogie Down Productions,
OOIOO,
The Victims,
The Knickerbockers,
Minnie Riperton,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Con Funk Shun,
The Neon Judgement,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Yellowson,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Moody Blues,
Minny Pops,
Rapeman,
John Holt,
Public Image Ltd.,
T.S.O.L.,
Q and Not U,
The Monochrome Set,
Altered Images,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.