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 Malaysia and from Seoul.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 oboe 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 Quadrant to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kurtis Blow,
Grey Daturas,
Arab on Radar,
L. Decosne,
Kevin Saunderson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
LL Cool J,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Nirvana,
Eric Copeland,
The Golliwogs,
Spandau Ballet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang Starr,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
OOIOO,
The Knickerbockers,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ice-T,
Soft Machine,
Make Up,
ABC,
FM Einheit,
Yazoo,
Pussy Galore,
the Germs,
Isaac Hayes,
Deadbeat,
a-ha,
Brothers Johnson,
Fluxion,
David Axelrod,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
U.S. Maple,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Crime,
Nico,
Niagra,
Blancmange,
Gang Green,
Rhythm & Sound,
Livin' Joy,
The Sound,
Patti Smith,
Roxette,
The Monochrome Set,
Nas,
Judy Mowatt,
Henry Cow,
The Pretty Things,
The Count Five,
Pagans,
X-101,
Rapeman,
Lucky Dragons,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Glenn Branca,
Shoche,
Steve Hackett,
The Sonics,
Flamin' Groovies,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.