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 Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Fugazi to the grunge 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Glenn Branca tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mr. Review record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stockholm Monsters,
Barbara Tucker,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Arab on Radar,
Soulsonic Force,
Patti Smith,
Neu!,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Neon Judgement,
The Moody Blues,
Graham Central Station,
Faust,
Radiohead,
Loose Ends,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eric Dolphy,
The Moleskins,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
the Normal,
The J.B.'s,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Dual Sessions,
Main Source,
Roxy Music,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Model 500,
AZ,
Arcadia,
Eli Mardock,
Frankie Knuckles,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rosa Yemen,
Vladislav Delay,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Dennis Brown,
Animal Collective,
Swell Maps,
Toni Rubio,
Mandrill,
Infiniti,
Magazine,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Robert Hood,
Mantronix,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Dead Boys,
David Axelrod,
Sister Nancy,
Tears for Fears,
Con Funk Shun,
Minor Threat,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Terry Callier,
Inner City,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lungfish,
Accadde A,
The Dirtbombs,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.