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 Ireland and from Calgary.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Columbus.
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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Ludus to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All DJ Sneak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
The Raincoats,
Pantytec,
The Star Department,
Pussy Galore,
Theoretical Girls,
Leonard Cohen,
Bootsy Collins,
Soul II Soul,
the Germs,
Monolake,
David Axelrod,
The Searchers,
Massinfluence,
The Vogues,
Patti Smith,
The Grass Roots,
Ralphi Rosario,
Deakin,
Gang Green,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sun Ra,
Oblivians,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Sound,
Stereo Dub,
Zapp,
Lakeside,
Girls At Our Best!,
Mantronix,
The Sisters of Mercy,
EPMD,
Ten City,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
New Order,
Brick,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Johnny Osbourne,
Siglo XX,
The Walker Brothers,
The Slits,
Camouflage,
Guru Guru,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Subhumans,
Joyce Sims,
Skriet,
Joey Negro,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Motorama,
Interpol,
Sandy B,
Radio Birdman,
Kool Moe Dee,
Shuggie Otis,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Fortunes,
The Human League,
Bush Tetras,
Agitation Free,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Slackers,
Index,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.