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 Netherlands and from Paris.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Manchester.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Fortunes to the dance 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Angels of Light & Akron/Family tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lightning Bolt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Charles Mingus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rapeman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Invisible,
Clear Light,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Tropical Tobacco,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Cal Tjader,
kango's stein massive,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Vainqueur,
Yusef Lateef,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Alice Coltrane,
Todd Rundgren,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sexual Harrassment,
Scan 7,
Brand Nubian,
Michelle Simonal,
The Fuzztones,
Oblivians,
Wally Richardson,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
David Bowie,
Stockholm Monsters,
John Lydon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kerri Chandler,
The Modern Lovers,
Wolf Eyes,
Camberwell Now,
Hardrive,
The Human League,
Derrick May,
Funkadelic,
Pole,
Tom Boy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Loose Ends,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Quadrant,
Black Moon,
Reuben Wilson,
Fela Kuti,
ABBA,
The Residents,
Warren Ellis,
Lower 48,
Gong,
Bill Wells,
The Durutti Column,
Qualms,
Reagan Youth,
Agitation Free,
Pylon,
The Leaves,
Bluetip,
Peter & Gordon,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.