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 Turkey and from Manchester.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 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 Easy Going 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 The Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythm & Sound,
The Neon Judgement,
Average White Band,
Loose Ends,
The Moleskins,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Modern Lovers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Derrick May,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Funky Four + One,
Fad Gadget,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eurythmics,
Byron Stingily,
The Gories,
Joensuu 1685,
F. McDonald,
Infiniti,
The Pop Group,
Schoolly D,
ABC,
Pulsallama,
These Immortal Souls,
Popol Vuh,
Joyce Sims,
Bush Tetras,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bobby Sherman,
Depeche Mode,
Eric Copeland,
The Smiths,
The Blues Magoos,
Eli Mardock,
The Blackbyrds,
Joey Negro,
EPMD,
Crime,
Eden Ahbez,
Camberwell Now,
Amon Düül,
Rakim,
Barrington Levy,
Joy Division,
T.S.O.L.,
Ultra Naté,
Amon Düül II,
Avey Tare,
Crispian St. Peters,
Albert Ayler,
Hardrive,
The Fuzztones,
Don Cherry,
Susan Cadogan,
Q and Not U,
Lalann,
Tom Boy,
Desert Stars,
Graham Central Station,
MDC,
PIL,
Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott.
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.