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 Czech Republic and from Lagos.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the rhodes 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 L. Decosne to the dance 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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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?
MC5,
Magma,
a-ha,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
D'Angelo,
Erykah Badu,
Pantaleimon,
Subhumans,
Audionom,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Susan Cadogan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Cramps,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mission of Burma,
F. McDonald,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sandy B,
The Happenings,
The Moleskins,
Brothers Johnson,
Eddi Front,
In Retrospect,
Todd Rundgren,
MDC,
Easy Going,
Joe Finger,
Mo-Dettes,
Gang of Four,
Parry Music,
The Saints,
cv313,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Davy DMX,
The Toasters,
Silicon Teens,
Connie Case,
Bill Wells,
Johnny Osbourne,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bobby Womack,
Colin Newman,
The Zeros,
Severed Heads,
The Walker Brothers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Aloha Tigers,
Wally Richardson,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Gladiators,
The Move,
La Düsseldorf,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pet Shop Boys,
the Germs,
The Litter,
Pylon,
Clear Light,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sarah Menescal,
The Moody Blues,
Nirvana,
The Slits, The Slits, The Slits, The Slits.
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.