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 Cameroon and from Sao Paulo.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 the Fania All-Stars to the grunge 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All The Peanut Butter Conspiracy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Fania All-Stars 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound 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?
The Knickerbockers,
Rhythm & Sound,
Peter and Kerry,
Minutemen,
Lindisfarne,
Qualms,
Icehouse,
The Golliwogs,
Mars,
June Days,
Duran Duran,
Joe Finger,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sixth Finger,
Roxy Music,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Thompson Twins,
Procol Harum,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Frankie Knuckles,
Graham Central Station,
Ituana,
EPMD,
Altered Images,
Audionom,
Sex Pistols,
Aloha Tigers,
Chris Corsano,
the Swans,
Althea and Donna,
10cc,
Matthew Halsall,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Arcadia,
The Sonics,
The Grass Roots,
Stiv Bators,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Oneida,
The Fugs,
Section 25,
Sällskapet,
Kayak,
Deadbeat,
Skaos,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bauhaus,
Angry Samoans,
DJ Style,
Camberwell Now,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
D'Angelo,
Crash Course in Science,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Bar-Kays,
Moby Grape,
Lakeside,
The Remains,
Easy Going,
Motorama, Motorama, Motorama, Motorama.
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.