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 Italy and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Glambeats Corp. to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dorothy Ashby record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
The Count Five,
Pierre Henry,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Model 500,
The Cowsills,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mission of Burma,
Donald Byrd,
Deepchord,
Altered Images,
Los Fastidios,
Whodini,
The Gun Club,
The Names,
Maleditus Sound,
Agitation Free,
Rites of Spring,
Sarah Menescal,
Nick Fraelich,
Sixth Finger,
Livin' Joy,
Television,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Roxy Music,
Man Eating Sloth,
Young Marble Giants,
R.M.O.,
David Axelrod,
The Angels of Light,
The Cure,
The Raincoats,
June Days,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
T. Rex,
The Smoke,
Stetsasonic,
Electric Prunes,
D'Angelo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scrapy,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ornette Coleman,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Wire,
The Fuzztones,
Pet Shop Boys,
Motorama,
Steve Hackett,
The Move,
the Soft Cell,
Das Ding,
Kevin Saunderson,
Barclay James Harvest,
Janne Schatter,
Ultra Naté,
Faust,
John Foxx,
Slave, Slave, Slave, Slave.
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.