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 Somalia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Marine Girls to the electroclash 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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All Rapeman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
The Velvet Underground,
The Modern Lovers,
Minny Pops,
Robert Wyatt,
The Cure,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Rotary Connection,
Stockholm Monsters,
UT,
Chrome,
kango's stein massive,
Metal Thangz,
Amon Düül,
Todd Terry,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Whodini,
Barbara Tucker,
Eli Mardock,
Unrelated Segments,
The Young Rascals,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joe Smooth,
Connie Case,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Toasters,
48th St. Collective,
Blancmange,
Infiniti,
Drexciya,
Buzzcocks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Divine Comedy,
The Human League,
JFA,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Neon Judgement,
Lower 48,
Neil Young,
Moby Grape,
Heaven 17,
New York Dolls,
Bill Wells,
The Leaves,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Half Japanese,
Patti Smith,
The Slits,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Radiopuhelimet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
MC5,
B.T. Express,
Ornette Coleman,
Scion,
Lakeside,
Fela Kuti,
The Dirtbombs,
Harmonia,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.