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 Nepal and from Seoul.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Camberwell Now to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Crooked Eye,
Icehouse,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Roger Hodgson,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gichy Dan,
Mo-Dettes,
Ten City,
Godley & Creme,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Josef K,
The Fortunes,
L. Decosne,
Jandek,
June Days,
Visage,
Cymande,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Surgeon,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Saints,
Minnie Riperton,
Funkadelic,
The New Christs,
Neil Young,
The Fuzztones,
Mark Hollis,
The Pretty Things,
Jerry's Kids,
LL Cool J,
Patti Smith,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Graham Central Station,
Joensuu 1685,
Delta 5,
Rufus Thomas,
The Offenders,
Fela Kuti,
David Axelrod,
John Lydon,
Bill Wells,
the Normal,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Techniques,
Robert Hood,
Man Parrish,
the Bar-Kays,
Johnny Clarke,
Harry Pussy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kool Moe Dee,
Black Sheep,
David Bowie,
Spandau Ballet,
Unrelated Segments,
8 Eyed Spy,
Toni Rubio,
Simply Red,
Jesper Dahlback,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.