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 Greece and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Fugazi to the grunge 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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Morten Harket record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Soulsonic Force,
Theoretical Girls,
Fatback Band,
Sexual Harrassment,
Rod Modell,
the Human League,
Echospace,
Porter Ricks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Stetsasonic,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Fall,
Black Pus,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pole,
Sparks,
These Immortal Souls,
Archie Shepp,
The Alarm Clocks,
Junior Murvin,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Camberwell Now,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sällskapet,
FM Einheit,
Sound Behaviour,
Magma,
The Raincoats,
The Vogues,
Urselle,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
U.S. Maple,
Icehouse,
Tomorrow,
The Wake,
Gil Scott Heron,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Monochrome Set,
The Dirtbombs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Boz Scaggs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Music Machine,
Rufus Thomas,
Fad Gadget,
Minny Pops,
Gichy Dan,
Dennis Brown,
Interpol,
The Victims,
The Dave Clark Five,
Agitation Free,
Sonic Youth,
John Foxx,
Absolute Body Control,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.