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 Cyprus and from Beijing.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Move to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Evens. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Peter and Kerry,
Bobby Byrd,
Quantec,
L. Decosne,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Excepter,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Loose Ends,
Josef K,
The Young Rascals,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
D'Angelo,
Kas Product,
Royal Trux,
Easy Going,
Popol Vuh,
Cal Tjader,
Los Fastidios,
Jawbox,
Black Moon,
Second Layer,
Motorama,
Rotary Connection,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Gap Band,
The Birthday Party,
Bauhaus,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Mummies,
Man Parrish,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Invisible,
Japan,
Sex Pistols,
Arthur Verocai,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
In Retrospect,
DJ Style,
The Dave Clark Five,
Janne Schatter,
Pole,
Donald Byrd,
Jeff Mills,
Adolescents,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Henry Cow,
Stockholm Monsters,
Maurizio,
Q and Not U,
Robert Hood,
The Golliwogs,
Radio Birdman,
Throbbing Gristle,
Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro.
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.