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 Russia and from Stockholm.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 snare 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 FM Einheit to the rap 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 kango's stein massive. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum 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 chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
JFA,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bobby Sherman,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Vladislav Delay,
The Knickerbockers,
Half Japanese,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Red Krayola,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ultra Naté,
Q65,
The Beau Brummels,
Basic Channel,
Mantronix,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Last Poets,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Gun Club,
Amon Düül,
cv313,
Little Man,
Piero Umiliani,
Barrington Levy,
Erykah Badu,
The Barracudas,
The Doobie Brothers,
Inner City,
The Monks,
Steve Hackett,
Hashim,
The Fall,
A Certain Ratio,
Fluxion,
The Happenings,
New York Dolls,
Cecil Taylor,
Bobby Womack,
Thee Headcoats,
June of 44,
World's Most,
Tubeway Army,
Nas,
Scientists,
Girls At Our Best!,
Fad Gadget,
Eric Copeland,
Eurythmics,
Howard Jones,
The Vogues,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pantaleimon,
The Sonics,
The Offenders,
The Electric Prunes,
The Cowsills,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kaleidoscope,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.