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 Switzerland and from Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Grandmaster Flash 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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Donny Hathaway tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Soulsonic Force,
The Gladiators,
Amon Düül,
Dave Gahan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gong,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Modern Lovers,
Swell Maps,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Beau Brummels,
D'Angelo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
T.S.O.L.,
X-101,
Darondo,
Ultimate Spinach,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Deakin,
Talk Talk,
Subhumans,
Brass Construction,
The Grass Roots,
Ronnie Foster,
China Crisis,
Junior Murvin,
The Flesh Eaters,
Cameo,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Buzzcocks,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pulsallama,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bobby Byrd,
Q65,
Mandrill,
Lower 48,
Delta 5,
Reuben Wilson,
Underground Resistance,
Main Source,
The Detroit Cobras,
Erasure,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Suburban Knight,
Angry Samoans,
Freddie Wadling,
The Associates,
The Dirtbombs,
Tommy Roe,
Half Japanese,
Symarip,
CMW,
Kurtis Blow,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Standells, The Standells, The Standells, The Standells.
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.