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 Mauritius and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Thompson Twins 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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All Louis and Bebe Barron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aural Exciters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Electric Prunes,
Pet Shop Boys,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jeff Lynne,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Eric B and Rakim,
Agent Orange,
Kerri Chandler,
Fad Gadget,
Lucky Dragons,
AZ,
The Alarm Clocks,
Schoolly D,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pagans,
Roxette,
Toni Rubio,
Howard Jones,
DJ Sneak,
Roxy Music,
Spoonie Gee,
New Age Steppers,
Jesper Dahlback,
Tim Buckley,
Cybotron,
Maleditus Sound,
New York Dolls,
Drive Like Jehu,
Jeff Mills,
Tres Demented,
Matthew Halsall,
Barrington Levy,
Zero Boys,
The Sonics,
T.S.O.L.,
Swans,
New Order,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Magma,
Lyres,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Shoche,
Amon Düül,
the Bar-Kays,
Gang of Four,
Pharoah Sanders,
Brick,
Slave,
Skarface,
Second Layer,
Groovy Waters,
Guru Guru,
Q65,
Agitation Free,
Robert Görl,
The Martian,
Minny Pops,
Blake Baxter,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.