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 Lebanon and from Lagos.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 One Last Wish 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 Angry Samoans. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Kinks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Fad Gadget,
Unrelated Segments,
The Cowsills,
Stiv Bators,
Robert Görl,
Electric Prunes,
The Fall,
Sex Pistols,
Schoolly D,
Ten City,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pierre Henry,
Ultravox,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Half Japanese,
Alison Limerick,
Con Funk Shun,
Panda Bear,
John Holt,
Average White Band,
James White and The Blacks,
David Axelrod,
Brass Construction,
D'Angelo,
The Seeds,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Johnny Osbourne,
Moebius,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kool Moe Dee,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Fat Boys,
Cabaret Voltaire,
B.T. Express,
Soul Sonic Force,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Deepchord,
Anthony Braxton,
Nas,
Fatback Band,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Niagra,
the Sonics,
Alphaville,
Danielle Patucci,
a-ha,
Deadbeat,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Shadows of Knight,
Rekid,
The Evens,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bauhaus,
Ultimate Spinach,
Kurtis Blow,
Quantec,
Joe Smooth,
Urselle,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lungfish, Lungfish, Lungfish, Lungfish.
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.