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 San Marino and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Jawbox to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All Mo-Dettes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Sarah Menescal,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Saccharine Trust,
Sparks,
Ten City,
The Dirtbombs,
Nas,
JFA,
June Days,
Blake Baxter,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kas Product,
Blancmange,
Deadbeat,
Cymande,
The Electric Prunes,
Lower 48,
Iggy Pop,
Scion,
Intrusion,
Clear Light,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Au Pairs,
Todd Rundgren,
Brass Construction,
The United States of America,
Eric Copeland,
Archie Shepp,
Television Personalities,
The Blackbyrds,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Altered Images,
Depeche Mode,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Scratch Acid,
The Moody Blues,
Shuggie Otis,
The Searchers,
World's Most,
Scan 7,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Arcadia,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Red Krayola,
cv313,
Jacob Miller,
Bobby Sherman,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
MC5,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Grauzone,
Television,
Crispian St. Peters,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Residents,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
New Age Steppers,
Mad Mike,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Fugs,
Wire,
The Cramps,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.