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 Korea South and from Madrid.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Underground Resistance to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Cybotron,
Alphaville,
Sonic Youth,
The Walker Brothers,
Josef K,
Nation of Ulysses,
Scientists,
Second Layer,
Niagra,
Subhumans,
Hashim,
Janne Schatter,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Detroit Cobras,
Duran Duran,
Roger Hodgson,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Prince Buster,
Reuben Wilson,
Youth Brigade,
The Beau Brummels,
Gichy Dan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Yaz,
Susan Cadogan,
Kaleidoscope,
The Mojo Men,
Kurtis Blow,
The Star Department,
Wally Richardson,
Audionom,
Stereo Dub,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Gladiators,
Lungfish,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
E-Dancer,
The J.B.'s,
Dead Boys,
Derrick May,
Q65,
AZ,
New Age Steppers,
The Raincoats,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Evens,
LL Cool J,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Black Moon,
Babytalk,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Darondo,
Negative Approach,
Isaac Hayes,
Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review.
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.