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 Sudan and from Edmonton.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 rhodes 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 Jerry's Kids to the funk 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 Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
Mission of Burma,
James White and The Blacks,
Deadbeat,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dark Day,
Visage,
Zero Boys,
Joe Smooth,
Don Cherry,
Funky Four + One,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Youth Brigade,
Jawbox,
Joyce Sims,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bluetip,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Alphaville,
Section 25,
Boz Scaggs,
OOIOO,
The Moody Blues,
Fluxion,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Public Enemy,
Metal Thangz,
Charles Mingus,
Outsiders,
Minutemen,
Porter Ricks,
Lalann,
Slick Rick,
Pantaleimon,
The Cramps,
Bill Near,
Magma,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Thompson Twins,
Derrick May,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
cv313,
The Selecter,
The Happenings,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bobby Sherman,
Marc Almond,
Organ,
Scott Walker,
Anthony Braxton,
Sonny Sharrock,
Junior Murvin,
the Sonics,
JFA,
Andrew Hill,
One Last Wish,
Lightning Bolt,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Tubeway Army,
DNA,
Eric Dolphy,
Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood.
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.