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 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 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 Young Rascals to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Banda Bassotti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacques Brel,
Average White Band,
cv313,
Intrusion,
In Retrospect,
The Selecter,
Skarface,
Niagra,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Excepter,
Camberwell Now,
Q and Not U,
Carl Craig,
Make Up,
Joe Smooth,
Half Japanese,
Wings,
Thee Headcoats,
The Last Poets,
Hot Snakes,
Public Image Ltd.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Buckinghams,
Donny Hathaway,
K-Klass,
Amazonics,
R.M.O.,
The Offenders,
Aaron Thompson,
Metal Thangz,
Kurtis Blow,
Andrew Hill,
Scan 7,
Eve St. Jones,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Scratch Acid,
T.S.O.L.,
Masters at Work,
Maurizio,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Index,
Joensuu 1685,
Section 25,
Lebanon Hanover,
Avey Tare,
Bob Dylan,
Chris & Cosey,
Cymande,
Dave Gahan,
Yusef Lateef,
Eurythmics,
Dark Day,
Matthew Halsall,
The Motions,
Animal Collective,
Slave,
Wolf Eyes,
KRS-One,
Kenny Larkin,
Sparks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.