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 Iraq and from Lyon.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Woodstock.
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 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 Tomorrow to the electroclash 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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Duran Duran record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Smiths,
World's Most,
Minutemen,
Ituana,
Young Marble Giants,
Fela Kuti,
The Smoke,
Gil Scott Heron,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Curtis Mayfield,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Evens,
Boz Scaggs,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Radio Birdman,
Scrapy,
Anakelly,
Urselle,
Faust,
Liliput,
The Tremeloes,
Lucky Dragons,
Symarip,
Harry Pussy,
Television Personalities,
Scan 7,
T.S.O.L.,
Panda Bear,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Kinks,
The Wake,
John Holt,
Hardrive,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Nation of Ulysses,
Eve St. Jones,
David Bowie,
Flash Fearless,
Dennis Brown,
Cheater Slicks,
Shoche,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Detroit Cobras,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Infiniti,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Seeds,
Whodini,
Throbbing Gristle,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Japan,
The Golliwogs,
Porter Ricks,
Colin Newman,
F. McDonald,
Alice Coltrane,
Circle Jerks,
Black Flag,
Quadrant,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.