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 Samoa and from Edmonton.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Saccharine Trust to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Harpers Bizarre. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Faraquet,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Yellowson,
Icehouse,
Organ,
Amon Düül,
LL Cool J,
Dark Day,
John Lydon,
Tim Buckley,
David Bowie,
Quantec,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cybotron,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Talk Talk,
Flamin' Groovies,
Popol Vuh,
Liliput,
Gang Green,
Ice-T,
Scion,
Pole,
Soft Machine,
Royal Trux,
Lindisfarne,
Kerrie Biddell,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Mantronix,
Black Moon,
Camberwell Now,
Nas,
Bauhaus,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Blake Baxter,
The Blues Magoos,
Skarface,
Joyce Sims,
Negative Approach,
The Five Americans,
K-Klass,
Silicon Teens,
Fear,
Lightning Bolt,
The Trojans,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pierre Henry,
Fluxion,
Dennis Brown,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ossler,
Adolescents,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jeff Lynne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Sonics,
The Leaves,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Stetsasonic,
Aural Exciters,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.