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 Zimbabwe and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 Paris and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 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 Marine Girls to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Mary Jane Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every R.M.O. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liliput record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Shuggie Otis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Moss Icon,
Joey Negro,
Lucky Dragons,
Yaz,
Mission of Burma,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pagans,
Bootsy Collins,
Chris & Cosey,
The Techniques,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Aaron Thompson,
Eurythmics,
Franke,
Bobby Womack,
Angry Samoans,
Alphaville,
Terrestrial Tones,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Mary Jane Girls,
Average White Band,
the Swans,
The Pretty Things,
Rotary Connection,
Warren Ellis,
LL Cool J,
Adolescents,
These Immortal Souls,
Monolake,
Interpol,
the Slits,
Traffic Nightmare,
Dennis Brown,
Ken Boothe,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Smoke,
Bad Manners,
Fear,
Soul Sonic Force,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Panda Bear,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Gladiators,
Eric Copeland,
PIL,
Echospace,
Neu!,
Das Ding,
Nation of Ulysses,
Cal Tjader,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Liliput,
Groovy Waters,
Kenny Larkin,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes.
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.