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 Equatorial Guinea and from Bologna.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 arpeggiator 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 Donald Byrd to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All The Mighty Diamonds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Black Sheep,
Oblivians,
The Golliwogs,
The Fire Engines,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kerri Chandler,
The Slackers,
UT,
JFA,
OOIOO,
Marcia Griffiths,
Alphaville,
Fad Gadget,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dual Sessions,
Faraquet,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Skriet,
The United States of America,
Frankie Knuckles,
Minnie Riperton,
Procol Harum,
Johnny Osbourne,
John Lydon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Smiths,
Von Mondo,
Lower 48,
Patti Smith,
Soul II Soul,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
June of 44,
F. McDonald,
Isaac Hayes,
Bobby Womack,
Au Pairs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Brass Construction,
The Dave Clark Five,
Susan Cadogan,
Mad Mike,
World's Most,
The Saints,
8 Eyed Spy,
Panda Bear,
Peter & Gordon,
Royal Trux,
The Mojo Men,
Rekid,
Saccharine Trust,
The Red Krayola,
Das Ding,
Todd Terry,
Reagan Youth,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Oneida,
Gang Starr,
Peter and Kerry,
Letta Mbulu,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry.
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.