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 Ghana and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 808 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 Little Man to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All MDC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marvin Gaye record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
Motorama,
DJ Sneak,
Excepter,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Moody Blues,
Danielle Patucci,
Howard Jones,
Ituana,
Parry Music,
Sam Rivers,
Derrick Morgan,
Simply Red,
Flash Fearless,
Bluetip,
Jandek,
Jawbox,
Sexual Harrassment,
Audionom,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gregory Isaacs,
Marine Girls,
Pagans,
Gil Scott Heron,
Liliput,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Eurythmics,
Sällskapet,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Slackers,
In Retrospect,
Procol Harum,
The Star Department,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Beau Brummels,
Al Stewart,
Pole,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Animal Collective,
Fugazi,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Echospace,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Blackbyrds,
The Raincoats,
Yaz,
Black Bananas,
Wasted Youth,
R.M.O.,
Mantronix,
The Seeds,
AZ,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ludus,
JFA,
Goldenarms,
Vainqueur,
Mark Hollis,
The Wake, The Wake, The Wake, The Wake.
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.