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 Belize and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 marimba 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 James Chance & The Contortions to the crunk 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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scientists record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
R.M.O.,
Ituana,
Lou Reed,
Unrelated Segments,
Black Flag,
Brothers Johnson,
T. Rex,
Bizarre Inc.,
Dark Day,
Trumans Water,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Martian,
Mo-Dettes,
The United States of America,
Marshall Jefferson,
Reagan Youth,
the Bar-Kays,
Lalann,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Robert Wyatt,
ABC,
Essential Logic,
The Doors,
Rakim,
Eric Copeland,
Delta 5,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Soul II Soul,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
the Soft Cell,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Minny Pops,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Happenings,
Rotary Connection,
10cc,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rosa Yemen,
Grandmaster Flash,
MDC,
Qualms,
Aswad,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
La Düsseldorf,
The Buckinghams,
Sonic Youth,
World's Most,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Five Americans,
Kayak,
Echospace,
Nik Kershaw,
Juan Atkins,
These Immortal Souls,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Robert Görl,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.