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 Moldova and from Salvador.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Sparks to the crunk 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 The Toasters. All the underground hits.
All Major Organ And The Adding Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sugar Minott,
Suicide,
Pagans,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gastr Del Sol,
Cameo,
Josef K,
New Age Steppers,
Soulsonic Force,
Rites of Spring,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bluetip,
The Knickerbockers,
the Slits,
Sonny Sharrock,
Q65,
Roxette,
Audionom,
The Gun Club,
Popol Vuh,
Skarface,
KRS-One,
Nico,
Isaac Hayes,
Anthony Braxton,
Scan 7,
It's A Beautiful Day,
MDC,
The Pop Group,
Junior Murvin,
The Standells,
Public Enemy,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Offenders,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Symarip,
Mo-Dettes,
Accadde A,
Tropical Tobacco,
Banda Bassotti,
Radio Birdman,
X-102,
Freddie Wadling,
Ten City,
The Index,
Pussy Galore,
Yaz,
The Motions,
The Five Americans,
Girls At Our Best!,
Y Pants,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eric Copeland,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pharoah Sanders,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
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.