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 Comoros and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Neu! to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Lou Reed. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
FM Einheit,
Drexciya,
Zapp,
The Grass Roots,
Lightning Bolt,
Joey Negro,
The Smoke,
Au Pairs,
Fluxion,
Black Moon,
The Cure,
June of 44,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Doors,
Kool Moe Dee,
EPMD,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Derrick May,
Curtis Mayfield,
Nirvana,
Kerrie Biddell,
Buzzcocks,
Idris Muhammad,
L. Decosne,
H. Thieme,
Joe Smooth,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Skatalites,
Fort Wilson Riot,
E-Dancer,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Hashim,
The Happenings,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Skaos,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Gladiators,
Man Parrish,
Quando Quango,
U.S. Maple,
Blossom Toes,
Neil Young,
Altered Images,
The Selecter,
Saccharine Trust,
Schoolly D,
Eden Ahbez,
Second Layer,
New Order,
The Sonics,
Sarah Menescal,
David Axelrod,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The United States of America,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.