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 Denmark and from Stockholm.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lyon.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band to the rock 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 Heavy D & The Boyz. All the underground hits.
All Dead Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moleskins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hot Snakes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Warren Ellis,
Youth Brigade,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Girls At Our Best!,
A Certain Ratio,
F. McDonald,
Wolf Eyes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
R.M.O.,
Glambeats Corp.,
Organ,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Deadbeat,
Shoche,
Suburban Knight,
Rosa Yemen,
Reuben Wilson,
Bizarre Inc.,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jesper Dahlback,
Nik Kershaw,
Stereo Dub,
Neu!,
KRS-One,
Chris Corsano,
The Angels of Light,
The Dave Clark Five,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Mummies,
Scan 7,
Eden Ahbez,
Magma,
Gerry Rafferty,
Jimmy McGriff,
Oblivians,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Zeros,
Severed Heads,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Negative Approach,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
UT,
Ultimate Spinach,
Soft Cell,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lyres,
Scrapy,
CMW,
Toni Rubio,
Mars,
U.S. Maple,
The Gories,
Altered Images,
Sonny Sharrock,
Oneida,
Juan Atkins,
The Slackers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.