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 Serbia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 Taipei and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Khruangbin to the techno 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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Blancmange,
Fad Gadget,
The Knickerbockers,
Section 25,
Ultimate Spinach,
Rakim,
Bobby Womack,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
48th St. Collective,
The Young Rascals,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Skatalites,
Niagra,
The Vogues,
Dorothy Ashby,
Can,
June of 44,
Average White Band,
Ten City,
Oblivians,
Toni Rubio,
Sugar Minott,
The Fuzztones,
Avey Tare,
MC5,
The Cowsills,
Kayak,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Scion,
Bronski Beat,
Interpol,
Amon Düül II,
Kaleidoscope,
Sarah Menescal,
Absolute Body Control,
Circle Jerks,
Grandmaster Flash,
Depeche Mode,
Radiopuhelimet,
Loose Ends,
Ronnie Foster,
Soft Machine,
Idris Muhammad,
The Divine Comedy,
Dead Boys,
Barbara Tucker,
Leonard Cohen,
The Seeds,
It's A Beautiful Day,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Dual Sessions,
Brothers Johnson,
Cluster,
Faust,
The Gun Club,
Mr. Review,
Isaac Hayes,
Carl Craig,
The Monks,
Curtis Mayfield,
Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters.
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.