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 Bahamas and from Stockholm.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Massinfluence to the crunk 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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Freddie Wadling tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Joe Finger,
Tres Demented,
Symarip,
Danielle Patucci,
Livin' Joy,
James White and The Blacks,
Swell Maps,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Alphaville,
Alison Limerick,
Whodini,
Mars,
The Wake,
Ten City,
Carl Craig,
Jerry's Kids,
Khruangbin,
Saccharine Trust,
X-102,
Main Source,
Youth Brigade,
R.M.O.,
Ludus,
OOIOO,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Aswad,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Quadrant,
Scratch Acid,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Joensuu 1685,
Parry Music,
Lou Reed,
JFA,
Robert Görl,
Zapp,
Unwound,
Public Enemy,
Girls At Our Best!,
Aaron Thompson,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
48th St. Collective,
The Smiths,
Boogie Down Productions,
Wally Richardson,
The Toasters,
Josef K,
Scott Walker,
Jeff Mills,
Donald Byrd,
the Normal,
Pole,
the Association,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.