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 Finland and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 marimba 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 Spoonie Gee to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All Jeru the Damaja tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Guru Guru,
Idris Muhammad,
The Mummies,
Bill Near,
Harry Pussy,
The Velvet Underground,
Model 500,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Schoolly D,
Moss Icon,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Agitation Free,
The Gories,
Vainqueur,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sugar Minott,
Jeff Lynne,
Crash Course in Science,
Chris Corsano,
The Doobie Brothers,
Franke,
Isaac Hayes,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Blancmange,
Terry Callier,
Crime,
Scientists,
Joey Negro,
Morten Harket,
Easy Going,
X-101,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Talk Talk,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Quantec,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Mark Hollis,
Blake Baxter,
The Cowsills,
Gang Green,
Howard Jones,
OOIOO,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Gun Club,
Pantytec,
Mars,
Absolute Body Control,
Public Image Ltd.,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
PIL,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lindisfarne,
June of 44,
Todd Terry,
Fat Boys,
The Evens,
Steve Hackett,
Terrestrial Tones,
Davy DMX,
10cc,
Fugazi,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.