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 Germany and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sonic Youth to the electroclash 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 Doors. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Soft Cell 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Offenders,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Marc Almond,
Section 25,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lou Reed,
Joey Negro,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
KRS-One,
Minnie Riperton,
AZ,
Derrick Morgan,
Freddie Wadling,
Bronski Beat,
Index,
The Slackers,
Grandmaster Flash,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Josef K,
Chris Corsano,
Jacob Miller,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dennis Brown,
Pole,
FM Einheit,
The Skatalites,
Panda Bear,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Das Ding,
Sex Pistols,
The Smoke,
Charles Mingus,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
F. McDonald,
Depeche Mode,
Sound Behaviour,
The Motions,
Ohio Players,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sixth Finger,
Audionom,
Al Stewart,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Eric Dolphy,
Fad Gadget,
Shuggie Otis,
Blake Baxter,
the Bar-Kays,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Negative Approach,
EPMD,
Scratch Acid,
Brass Construction,
Carl Craig,
Eric Copeland,
Pere Ubu,
The Birthday Party,
Visage, Visage, Visage, Visage.
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.