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 Samoa and from Columbus.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro 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 Dennis Brown to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
Marc Almond,
Kas Product,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bootsy Collins,
Ronan,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Smiths,
Suburban Knight,
T.S.O.L.,
Schoolly D,
Fatback Band,
Rosa Yemen,
the Bar-Kays,
Howard Jones,
Kerri Chandler,
The Red Krayola,
Delon & Dalcan,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Panda Bear,
Japan,
Fluxion,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Minny Pops,
The Busters,
Pussy Galore,
Moebius,
Goldenarms,
Isaac Hayes,
Max Romeo,
Lou Reed,
the Normal,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Tommy Roe,
Danielle Patucci,
Scientists,
Skaos,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pantytec,
China Crisis,
The Dirtbombs,
The Moody Blues,
Bill Wells,
Crooked Eye,
Carl Craig,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Last Poets,
Amon Düül,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
New York Dolls,
Minnie Riperton,
Silicon Teens,
Mad Mike,
The Selecter,
Spandau Ballet,
Brand Nubian,
Simply Red,
the Germs,
Joyce Sims,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.