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 Morocco and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Knickerbockers to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Association. All the underground hits.
All A Certain Ratio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bizarre Inc.,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Aural Exciters,
John Foxx,
the Bar-Kays,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Doobie Brothers,
Von Mondo,
Banda Bassotti,
a-ha,
Zapp,
The Monks,
Grey Daturas,
Rotary Connection,
Grandmaster Flash,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Los Fastidios,
Organ,
Crispian St. Peters,
KRS-One,
Kurtis Blow,
Dual Sessions,
Schoolly D,
Big Daddy Kane,
Con Funk Shun,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Joe Finger,
The Wake,
Moss Icon,
The Pop Group,
Excepter,
Bad Manners,
The Victims,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Music Machine,
Flash Fearless,
Skriet,
The Trojans,
Marmalade,
The Techniques,
David Axelrod,
Marine Girls,
Jerry's Kids,
The Shadows of Knight,
David McCallum,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Mojo Men,
Glambeats Corp.,
Royal Trux,
Ultimate Spinach,
Khruangbin,
Sun Ra,
Amazonics,
Second Layer,
Bush Tetras,
Prince Buster,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.