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 Kenya and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 oboe 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 Josef K to the disco 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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris & Cosey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sound Behaviour,
Qualms,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Soul II Soul,
Easy Going,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pylon,
X-102,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Barracudas,
Alphaville,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marmalade,
Scott Walker,
The Gun Club,
the Association,
Flipper,
Boz Scaggs,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Happenings,
Charles Mingus,
Banda Bassotti,
Darondo,
The Kinks,
Scratch Acid,
Danielle Patucci,
Davy DMX,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Electric Prunes,
Kaleidoscope,
Gang of Four,
Wolf Eyes,
The Wake,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Dirtbombs,
The United States of America,
Sarah Menescal,
The Cramps,
Todd Rundgren,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Tres Demented,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Saints,
Kayak,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Iggy Pop,
D'Angelo,
The Trojans,
Nik Kershaw,
Urselle,
Wings,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Hot Snakes,
One Last Wish,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
the Germs,
La Düsseldorf,
KRS-One,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.