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 Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the dance 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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Letta Mbulu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
F. McDonald,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Zero Boys,
Rufus Thomas,
Jeff Lynne,
The Motions,
Gang Gang Dance,
cv313,
Glenn Branca,
The Tremeloes,
LL Cool J,
In Retrospect,
Sight & Sound,
Pagans,
The J.B.'s,
Johnny Osbourne,
La Düsseldorf,
Visage,
The Grass Roots,
The Victims,
Jacques Brel,
The Last Poets,
Pantaleimon,
Rosa Yemen,
Intrusion,
Quadrant,
Black Pus,
Jandek,
Stereo Dub,
Tomorrow,
Vladislav Delay,
L. Decosne,
KRS-One,
Saccharine Trust,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Robert Görl,
Eric Copeland,
Monolake,
Gang Starr,
Brand Nubian,
Letta Mbulu,
Reagan Youth,
Nick Fraelich,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Leaves,
E-Dancer,
Lucky Dragons,
Ken Boothe,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Eurythmics,
Joyce Sims,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rites of Spring,
Toni Rubio,
Sister Nancy,
The Pretty Things,
Cheater Slicks,
8 Eyed Spy,
FM Einheit,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.