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 Guatemala and from Madrid.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin 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 Can to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Procol Harum,
Eric Dolphy,
The Martian,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rakim,
The Count Five,
Archie Shepp,
Negative Approach,
Hot Snakes,
Kas Product,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Faust,
Fear,
Blancmange,
Bad Manners,
Cal Tjader,
Bill Near,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eric Copeland,
Nik Kershaw,
Kenny Larkin,
Y Pants,
The Gladiators,
Barry Ungar,
Television,
Barclay James Harvest,
DJ Style,
Excepter,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Cluster,
Flipper,
Skarface,
The Residents,
Johnny Clarke,
Ronan,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
ABBA,
Smog,
Joensuu 1685,
Blossom Toes,
Carl Craig,
Newcleus,
Aloha Tigers,
Magma,
Boz Scaggs,
Organ,
Colin Newman,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Vogues,
the Normal,
Royal Trux,
Scott Walker,
Maleditus Sound,
Oneida,
Bang On A Can,
Sister Nancy,
Aaron Thompson,
Roger Hodgson,
The Toasters,
Sunsets and Hearts,
New Age Steppers,
The Motions,
Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana.
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.