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 Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 rap 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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Siglo XX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dead Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
Patti Smith,
Delon & Dalcan,
Saccharine Trust,
Technova,
Soulsonic Force,
New York Dolls,
The Slackers,
Franke,
Los Fastidios,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Trumans Water,
The Pop Group,
Silicon Teens,
Soft Machine,
Godley & Creme,
Infiniti,
Gregory Isaacs,
Main Source,
Rakim,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sandy B,
Make Up,
Darondo,
Prince Buster,
Roxy Music,
Audionom,
Roxette,
Sällskapet,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Minor Threat,
Blossom Toes,
JFA,
Kerrie Biddell,
Pussy Galore,
Country Teasers,
Maurizio,
Ice-T,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bronski Beat,
Camberwell Now,
Jeff Mills,
Moebius,
The Smiths,
Massinfluence,
Joe Finger,
Zapp,
Thee Headcoats,
Pulsallama,
Alphaville,
Marvin Gaye,
Colin Newman,
The Black Dice,
Charles Mingus,
John Holt,
Bush Tetras,
Cymande,
Black Bananas,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bobby Byrd,
The Red Krayola,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats.
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.