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 Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Stereo Dub to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Au Pairs. All the underground hits.
All Max Romeo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Dead C,
The Zeros,
Infiniti,
Yazoo,
Whodini,
Boredoms,
Smog,
Pet Shop Boys,
Steve Hackett,
Piero Umiliani,
Zapp,
Michelle Simonal,
Basic Channel,
Bauhaus,
Kerrie Biddell,
Alton Ellis,
Erasure,
The Knickerbockers,
Grauzone,
Au Pairs,
Pantytec,
Alphaville,
The Index,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ten City,
Q65,
The Offenders,
Little Man,
Moby Grape,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Buckinghams,
Lungfish,
Japan,
China Crisis,
Silicon Teens,
Quantec,
E-Dancer,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mandrill,
Spandau Ballet,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Mantronix,
Shoche,
UT,
Sonic Youth,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pylon,
The Pop Group,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Count Five,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sparks,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pere Ubu,
Harry Pussy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Popol Vuh,
Icehouse,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Deepchord,
Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore.
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.