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 Chad and from Houston.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ 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 Guru Guru to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Girls At Our Best! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Association,
Radio Birdman,
Wings,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Fad Gadget,
Soul II Soul,
Pylon,
Barbara Tucker,
Marcia Griffiths,
Boz Scaggs,
L. Decosne,
Derrick May,
Aural Exciters,
Ultravox,
the Germs,
Alison Limerick,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Neon Judgement,
The Kinks,
Television Personalities,
MDC,
X-Ray Spex,
Spoonie Gee,
Freddie Wadling,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Happenings,
Brand Nubian,
Sly & The Family Stone,
AZ,
Archie Shepp,
Stetsasonic,
Nik Kershaw,
Anakelly,
The Pretty Things,
Silicon Teens,
Clear Light,
Section 25,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Music Machine,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
the Normal,
The Seeds,
Q and Not U,
Minutemen,
Minnie Riperton,
Lightning Bolt,
Lyres,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Blackbyrds,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Shuggie Otis,
Drexciya,
E-Dancer,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Roy Ayers,
The Young Rascals,
Livin' Joy,
Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman.
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.