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 Burundi and from New York.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Infiniti to the grime 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The J.B.'s,
Jeff Lynne,
Sexual Harrassment,
Glambeats Corp.,
Isaac Hayes,
The Neon Judgement,
Cybotron,
Flamin' Groovies,
Derrick May,
Flash Fearless,
Eurythmics,
Wally Richardson,
Jandek,
Technova,
Model 500,
Swans,
Bluetip,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Alison Limerick,
Minny Pops,
X-102,
Johnny Clarke,
Stereo Dub,
Infiniti,
Television Personalities,
Fear,
The Trojans,
Gil Scott Heron,
Aloha Tigers,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eden Ahbez,
In Retrospect,
Rod Modell,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ice-T,
The Grass Roots,
Derrick Morgan,
Robert Görl,
Average White Band,
Nation of Ulysses,
Cluster,
Lakeside,
Los Fastidios,
Gichy Dan,
Dark Day,
Bobby Womack,
Scan 7,
Can,
Sarah Menescal,
Panda Bear,
Kenny Larkin,
Henry Cow,
Public Enemy,
Newcleus,
The Beau Brummels,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Blues Magoos,
The Slackers,
The Last Poets,
The Modern Lovers,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.