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 Switzerland and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 mellotron 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 Marmalade to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Ralphi Rosario tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Goldenarms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
The Black Dice,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Crispy Ambulance,
Harry Pussy,
The Blackbyrds,
Michelle Simonal,
Thee Headcoats,
Goldenarms,
Archie Shepp,
Dave Gahan,
Joe Smooth,
Interpol,
Gang of Four,
the Swans,
Flash Fearless,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Altered Images,
Underground Resistance,
8 Eyed Spy,
Spoonie Gee,
Alton Ellis,
Sister Nancy,
Barbara Tucker,
The Wake,
Robert Wyatt,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Scan 7,
Brick,
Model 500,
Groovy Waters,
Monolake,
Boz Scaggs,
Bob Dylan,
Kevin Saunderson,
Drexciya,
Radiohead,
Alison Limerick,
Kerri Chandler,
Bobby Womack,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Gories,
Metal Thangz,
Freddie Wadling,
Joy Division,
The Music Machine,
Eve St. Jones,
Livin' Joy,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Basic Channel,
Thompson Twins,
DNA,
Ralphi Rosario,
Country Teasers,
The Monochrome Set,
Black Moon,
Ultimate Spinach,
Massinfluence,
The Misunderstood,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Todd Terry,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.