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 India and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Rotary Connection to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Royal Trux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gladiators record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Smiths,
Scrapy,
Swell Maps,
Camberwell Now,
Moebius,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scott Walker,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sight & Sound,
Ten City,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Arcadia,
Swans,
The Misunderstood,
The Martian,
Cluster,
The Modern Lovers,
Outsiders,
Fluxion,
John Lydon,
Rotary Connection,
Yazoo,
Nirvana,
The Tremeloes,
Wolf Eyes,
Boredoms,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Faraquet,
Toni Rubio,
Pantytec,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Toasters,
Graham Central Station,
JFA,
Ornette Coleman,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jeru the Damaja,
Model 500,
Ultra Naté,
Livin' Joy,
the Association,
Wasted Youth,
Inner City,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rapeman,
New York Dolls,
Sun City Girls,
Sugar Minott,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kenny Larkin,
Public Enemy,
Make Up,
Ohio Players,
The Seeds,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Blake Baxter,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Human League,
Television Personalities,
OOIOO,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.