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 Mexico and from Sao Paulo.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Erasure to the rap 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Cabaret Voltaire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 48th St. Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
JFA,
Joensuu 1685,
Rakim,
Lou Christie,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Fugs,
Alison Limerick,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Stetsasonic,
Oblivians,
Das Ding,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Absolute Body Control,
Ossler,
Soul II Soul,
Mark Hollis,
John Holt,
The Standells,
The Dirtbombs,
Japan,
Steve Hackett,
Silicon Teens,
Sight & Sound,
Jacob Miller,
Aloha Tigers,
Eve St. Jones,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
David McCallum,
Nils Olav,
Groovy Waters,
Scrapy,
Derrick May,
Joe Finger,
Desert Stars,
Minnie Riperton,
John Foxx,
June of 44,
KRS-One,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Move,
The Fall,
the Sonics,
Sonic Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Subhumans,
Sparks,
Swell Maps,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Moody Blues,
the Normal,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gang Gang Dance,
Drive Like Jehu,
Warren Ellis,
MDC,
EPMD,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Circle Jerks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Liliput,
Aaron Thompson,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.