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 Ecuador and from London.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro 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 FM Einheit to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Television,
KRS-One,
EPMD,
The Human League,
Public Image Ltd.,
Buzzcocks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Thompson Twins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Soulsonic Force,
Pharoah Sanders,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Skriet,
Funky Four + One,
Clear Light,
Accadde A,
Man Parrish,
The Blackbyrds,
Cymande,
Mark Hollis,
Bizarre Inc.,
John Holt,
Country Teasers,
The Saints,
ABBA,
David McCallum,
JFA,
Flipper,
a-ha,
Byron Stingily,
Harpers Bizarre,
Hashim,
Bill Wells,
Marc Almond,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Doors,
The Litter,
Erykah Badu,
Khruangbin,
Dark Day,
Kool Moe Dee,
Idris Muhammad,
Lalann,
Lalo Schifrin,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Royal Trux,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Associates,
Dorothy Ashby,
Technova,
Tubeway Army,
The Searchers,
Babytalk,
Roxy Music,
the Human League,
Kas Product,
John Foxx,
H. Thieme,
Half Japanese,
Erasure,
Dave Gahan,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.