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 Albania and from Manchester.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Marmalade to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Qualms,
Toni Rubio,
H. Thieme,
Kevin Saunderson,
Unwound,
Jandek,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Parry Music,
Half Japanese,
The Fire Engines,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Smog,
Eve St. Jones,
Sonic Youth,
The Slackers,
Audionom,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sällskapet,
Lucky Dragons,
Television Personalities,
Camouflage,
Erykah Badu,
Dave Gahan,
World's Most,
The Golliwogs,
Young Marble Giants,
Gregory Isaacs,
Echospace,
The Smiths,
D'Angelo,
Rod Modell,
Sexual Harrassment,
Mars,
Darondo,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sam Rivers,
Curtis Mayfield,
Joy Division,
Alice Coltrane,
Sound Behaviour,
Godley & Creme,
The Leaves,
Ten City,
Basic Channel,
Connie Case,
Jeff Lynne,
Tres Demented,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Infiniti,
Arthur Verocai,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Adolescents,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Alarm Clocks,
Simply Red,
Bobby Byrd,
Nirvana,
Tubeway Army,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Faraquet,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.