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 Guinea and from Manchester.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Robert Palmer 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 the Slits to the grunge 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 the Normal. All the underground hits.
All Erykah Badu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Sneak 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spoonie Gee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Standells,
Jerry's Kids,
The Fugs,
ABC,
Interpol,
Patti Smith,
La Düsseldorf,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
U.S. Maple,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Royal Trux,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Youth Brigade,
Rakim,
The Cure,
The Young Rascals,
Charles Mingus,
Wally Richardson,
Brothers Johnson,
Ronan,
Ornette Coleman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Minnie Riperton,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Cal Tjader,
Magazine,
Bobby Womack,
Throbbing Gristle,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Intrusion,
The Gories,
Mission of Burma,
The Raincoats,
Byron Stingily,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Delon & Dalcan,
Bush Tetras,
The Fuzztones,
Janne Schatter,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Slave,
Television Personalities,
Goldenarms,
Blossom Toes,
Pere Ubu,
Panda Bear,
The Invisible,
Matthew Halsall,
KRS-One,
Sun City Girls,
10cc,
The Detroit Cobras,
Connie Case,
Gang Green,
R.M.O.,
Severed Heads,
Lalann,
CMW,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.