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 Fiji and from Toronto.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Nas to the funk 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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dorothy Ashby 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glenn Branca,
Erykah Badu,
Sister Nancy,
Panda Bear,
Rhythm & Sound,
kango's stein massive,
The Knickerbockers,
Audionom,
The Doors,
Essential Logic,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Thompson Twins,
Main Source,
Iggy Pop,
Minor Threat,
The Smiths,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Move,
Donny Hathaway,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Wake,
Fat Boys,
Funkadelic,
Camberwell Now,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Divine Comedy,
D'Angelo,
Buzzcocks,
Bootsy Collins,
Dennis Brown,
The Martian,
Alton Ellis,
Unwound,
Neu!,
X-Ray Spex,
John Lydon,
The Associates,
Mission of Burma,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ultra Naté,
Deepchord,
The Birthday Party,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sugar Minott,
June Days,
Juan Atkins,
The Neon Judgement,
Television Personalities,
Lungfish,
Marine Girls,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Moody Blues,
EPMD,
The New Christs,
Kas Product,
Cymande,
Sam Rivers,
E-Dancer,
Bobby Sherman,
Pet Shop Boys,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.