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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Kayak to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sex Pistols. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Loose Ends record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Maurizio,
Flash Fearless,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Joe Smooth,
The Smoke,
Cheater Slicks,
Thee Headcoats,
Black Moon,
Minor Threat,
Deepchord,
Godley & Creme,
Eli Mardock,
The Modern Lovers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mark Hollis,
Isaac Hayes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Brothers Johnson,
Wire,
Visage,
Alton Ellis,
Joy Division,
Kevin Saunderson,
T. Rex,
Bauhaus,
Gang Green,
Duran Duran,
Donny Hathaway,
Letta Mbulu,
Eden Ahbez,
Amon Düül II,
Guru Guru,
Warren Ellis,
Rotary Connection,
Gastr Del Sol,
Barclay James Harvest,
D'Angelo,
Dawn Penn,
The Velvet Underground,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Television Personalities,
Erykah Badu,
Chris Corsano,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Warsaw,
Half Japanese,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Absolute Body Control,
Jeru the Damaja,
Surgeon,
Gang Starr,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Swans,
Funkadelic,
The Angels of Light,
Robert Wyatt,
La Düsseldorf,
Tres Demented,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Move,
L. Decosne,
Motorama, Motorama, Motorama, Motorama.
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.