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 Burkina and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jimmy McGriff to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Johnny Clarke. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
The Invisible,
The Beau Brummels,
The Gories,
Rakim,
Kerri Chandler,
Todd Rundgren,
Dead Boys,
Black Moon,
the Bar-Kays,
Prince Buster,
Letta Mbulu,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Hardrive,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Simply Red,
Average White Band,
The Smiths,
Dave Gahan,
Subhumans,
Negative Approach,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sandy B,
Unwound,
Bush Tetras,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Aaron Thompson,
Pantaleimon,
Althea and Donna,
Fugazi,
The J.B.'s,
Bobbi Humphrey,
John Holt,
Basic Channel,
Soulsonic Force,
Todd Terry,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Velvet Underground,
Bobby Sherman,
Davy DMX,
Maurizio,
Curtis Mayfield,
Tom Boy,
Bauhaus,
Smog,
Agitation Free,
Carl Craig,
Motorama,
Visage,
Soft Machine,
Minny Pops,
The Seeds,
Donny Hathaway,
Sällskapet,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lungfish,
Pussy Galore,
The Gap Band,
The Pretty Things,
Cybotron,
The Saints,
Procol Harum,
Fad Gadget,
The Cure, The Cure, The Cure, The Cure.
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.