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 Ivory Coast and from Glasgow.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 ABC to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Dead Boys. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Livin' Joy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Walker Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drexciya,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Section 25,
Von Mondo,
Soul Sonic Force,
Essential Logic,
Moby Grape,
The Blackbyrds,
Derrick May,
Talk Talk,
The Birthday Party,
Joy Division,
Sam Rivers,
Tres Demented,
Jacob Miller,
Bluetip,
Zero Boys,
Yazoo,
The Tremeloes,
Mantronix,
John Foxx,
U.S. Maple,
Zapp,
John Cale,
Surgeon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Khruangbin,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Stereo Dub,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Erykah Badu,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kayak,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Toasters,
The Fugs,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Stockholm Monsters,
Franke,
Donald Byrd,
Joey Negro,
Ronnie Foster,
Monks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Smoke,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Offenders,
Kas Product,
Crispy Ambulance,
H. Thieme,
The Slackers,
Girls At Our Best!,
Soul II Soul,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tubeway Army,
Danielle Patucci,
Warren Ellis,
L. Decosne,
Erasure, Erasure, Erasure, Erasure.
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.