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 Bolivia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Beijing.
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 rhodes 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 Agent Orange to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Smiths. All the underground hits.
All Susan Cadogan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Visage,
Mantronix,
Angry Samoans,
ABC,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mars,
Motorama,
Gil Scott Heron,
Colin Newman,
Rosa Yemen,
Organ,
Tubeway Army,
New Age Steppers,
Bobby Byrd,
Glambeats Corp.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rekid,
Skarface,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Talk Talk,
D'Angelo,
The Sonics,
Kool Moe Dee,
Thompson Twins,
Blossom Toes,
Gang of Four,
Lakeside,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Trumans Water,
Hardrive,
Porter Ricks,
Animal Collective,
Kevin Saunderson,
Japan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Nick Fraelich,
MC5,
Country Teasers,
Sexual Harrassment,
Eve St. Jones,
These Immortal Souls,
The Gun Club,
Cheater Slicks,
Minutemen,
the Germs,
The Moody Blues,
Mission of Burma,
Fatback Band,
The Music Machine,
Black Pus,
Guru Guru,
Eurythmics,
Thee Headcoats,
Rufus Thomas,
The Martian,
Drive Like Jehu,
Reagan Youth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio.
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.