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 Andorra and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Lou Reed 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 Kerri Chandler to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans 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 synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
Infiniti,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Yusef Lateef,
The Sound,
Deadbeat,
Bootsy Collins,
Clear Light,
Pulsallama,
Fatback Band,
Youth Brigade,
Fugazi,
Essential Logic,
Rosa Yemen,
Steve Hackett,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Wake,
The Velvet Underground,
Marvin Gaye,
Trumans Water,
Eurythmics,
Shuggie Otis,
Quadrant,
Surgeon,
Gang Gang Dance,
Rites of Spring,
Agitation Free,
Ronnie Foster,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Das Ding,
Lucky Dragons,
Moby Grape,
Groovy Waters,
X-102,
Robert Wyatt,
Don Cherry,
Barbara Tucker,
Maleditus Sound,
Easy Going,
The Blues Magoos,
Minnie Riperton,
Sister Nancy,
UT,
Frankie Knuckles,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sun City Girls,
Alice Coltrane,
Eric Dolphy,
Los Fastidios,
OOIOO,
Niagra,
Young Marble Giants,
The Litter,
Model 500,
Brand Nubian,
Thee Headcoats,
JFA,
Kurtis Blow,
Index,
the Bar-Kays,
The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs.
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.