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 Slovenia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Moby Grape to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Livin' Joy. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
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,
Clear Light,
Lee Hazlewood,
Eden Ahbez,
Harpers Bizarre,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Rhythm & Sound,
Jacques Brel,
Peter & Gordon,
Mars,
Nirvana,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Dawn Penn,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eve St. Jones,
Reagan Youth,
Outsiders,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Con Funk Shun,
Max Romeo,
Suburban Knight,
Minutemen,
JFA,
F. McDonald,
World's Most,
Lungfish,
Marc Almond,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
R.M.O.,
The Grass Roots,
Joe Smooth,
The Selecter,
Kayak,
Rekid,
Henry Cow,
Talk Talk,
Unwound,
Panda Bear,
This Heat,
Television,
Michelle Simonal,
Negative Approach,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Walker Brothers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Skaos,
Unrelated Segments,
Scratch Acid,
Lalann,
MDC,
Maurizio,
Todd Terry,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Monks,
Barrington Levy,
Faraquet,
Saccharine Trust,
Mary Jane Girls,
Steve Hackett,
Man Eating Sloth,
Kaleidoscope,
Tres Demented,
The Fortunes,
The Monochrome Set,
Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee.
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.