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 Iran and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Salvador.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the guitar 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 Harmonia to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roy Ayers,
Das Ding,
Subhumans,
Shuggie Otis,
Tres Demented,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pylon,
Soft Cell,
DNA,
Dark Day,
The Pop Group,
Zapp,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Infiniti,
Althea and Donna,
The Gun Club,
New Age Steppers,
Barclay James Harvest,
Icehouse,
The Fall,
The Human League,
Pantaleimon,
Derrick Morgan,
Warren Ellis,
Circle Jerks,
Harmonia,
Crime,
The Invisible,
Darondo,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Organ,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Busters,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bobby Byrd,
Hashim,
Newcleus,
The Divine Comedy,
Joy Division,
the Swans,
Lower 48,
Sonic Youth,
The Offenders,
The Skatalites,
Suburban Knight,
The Zeros,
Index,
Traffic Nightmare,
Faust,
Scan 7,
UT,
Aural Exciters,
Matthew Halsall,
Faraquet,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Letta Mbulu,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lightning Bolt,
The Happenings,
The Sound, The Sound, The Sound, The Sound.
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.