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 Algeria and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 Shanghai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 EPMD to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin 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 synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masters at Work,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Negative Approach,
Eric Copeland,
Michelle Simonal,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sugar Minott,
Silicon Teens,
The Black Dice,
Ossler,
Rod Modell,
Arthur Verocai,
Radiohead,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Avey Tare,
CMW,
Man Eating Sloth,
Wire,
Connie Case,
Hashim,
Can,
Swell Maps,
Organ,
Gregory Isaacs,
Magma,
Soul II Soul,
The Flesh Eaters,
Warsaw,
Colin Newman,
Sight & Sound,
Freddie Wadling,
June of 44,
Brothers Johnson,
The Fuzztones,
The Raincoats,
Lungfish,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Victims,
Ludus,
Archie Shepp,
Black Moon,
Quantec,
Grandmaster Flash,
New York Dolls,
Yellowson,
MC5,
Joe Smooth,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Con Funk Shun,
Gastr Del Sol,
Carl Craig,
The Misunderstood,
Interpol,
John Holt,
The Real Kids,
Lakeside,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Techniques,
Animal Collective,
Dorothy Ashby,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.