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 Ecuador and from Houston.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Accra.
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 808 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 Nick Fraelich to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Toasters. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Divine Comedy 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Kinks,
Kool Moe Dee,
Duran Duran,
Susan Cadogan,
Boz Scaggs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Massinfluence,
Half Japanese,
Popol Vuh,
Joensuu 1685,
Ponytail,
Gastr Del Sol,
Mission of Burma,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kas Product,
Agent Orange,
Bizarre Inc.,
Mad Mike,
Ornette Coleman,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Black Dice,
Andrew Hill,
Deadbeat,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rosa Yemen,
The Raincoats,
Black Flag,
Drive Like Jehu,
the Bar-Kays,
Lucky Dragons,
Joe Smooth,
Sister Nancy,
Alphaville,
Scan 7,
The Gap Band,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ituana,
Surgeon,
The Zeros,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ultravox,
The Young Rascals,
Barclay James Harvest,
Soulsonic Force,
Kenny Larkin,
Connie Case,
Average White Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Aloha Tigers,
Wasted Youth,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gregory Isaacs,
Wally Richardson,
the Sonics,
Gichy Dan,
Roger Hodgson,
Mars,
Das Ding,
Amon Düül II,
The Names,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.