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 Chile and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 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 Nas to the grime 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 Pussy Galore. All the underground hits.
All Letta Mbulu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Residents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Infiniti 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?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
DJ Sneak,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Misunderstood,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mandrill,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Los Fastidios,
Ohio Players,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Dead Boys,
Shoche,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bill Wells,
Dark Day,
Panda Bear,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kool Moe Dee,
Maleditus Sound,
Cluster,
Wings,
The Buckinghams,
Piero Umiliani,
Infiniti,
Todd Terry,
Agent Orange,
ABBA,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Jacob Miller,
Outsiders,
Soulsonic Force,
The Fugs,
Thompson Twins,
World's Most,
Man Eating Sloth,
Gong,
Drive Like Jehu,
Section 25,
Angry Samoans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Black Flag,
Can,
Moebius,
Khruangbin,
Sparks,
Johnny Clarke,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Neil Young,
Tom Boy,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Vladislav Delay,
Quando Quango,
Boogie Down Productions,
Cameo,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
the Swans,
Icehouse,
Jerry's Kids,
Letta Mbulu,
Ituana,
Archie Shepp,
D'Angelo,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band.
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.