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 Romania and from Columbus.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Smiths to the funk 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 Althea and Donna. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lightning Bolt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Morten Harket,
Skaos,
Negative Approach,
Stereo Dub,
Althea and Donna,
T.S.O.L.,
ABBA,
Ludus,
Basic Channel,
Roxy Music,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Massinfluence,
Scan 7,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Hoover,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bizarre Inc.,
Maleditus Sound,
Toni Rubio,
Thompson Twins,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Blackbyrds,
Accadde A,
Nation of Ulysses,
Can,
Lakeside,
H. Thieme,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Parry Music,
The Residents,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gang Green,
Eric Dolphy,
Little Man,
Ten City,
Davy DMX,
Echospace,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Yellowson,
Marc Almond,
John Foxx,
Swell Maps,
Sixth Finger,
Sonic Youth,
Popol Vuh,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pylon,
The Mojo Men,
The Gap Band,
Moebius,
kango's stein massive,
Depeche Mode,
Bauhaus,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bootsy Collins,
Carl Craig,
The Neon Judgement,
Cluster,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama.
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.