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 East Timor and from Lille.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the 808 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 Second Layer to the disco 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All MDC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronnie Foster 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stiv Bators,
Scan 7,
Spoonie Gee,
Lalo Schifrin,
Mad Mike,
Warren Ellis,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
In Retrospect,
Kas Product,
Soft Cell,
Clear Light,
The Techniques,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Radiopuhelimet,
Mission of Burma,
Khruangbin,
World's Most,
The Moleskins,
Lebanon Hanover,
Main Source,
Fatback Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Idris Muhammad,
Susan Cadogan,
Loose Ends,
Faust,
Absolute Body Control,
Aural Exciters,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gabor Szabo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bronski Beat,
June Days,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
David McCallum,
A Certain Ratio,
The Velvet Underground,
Byron Stingily,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Move,
Donald Byrd,
John Holt,
Magma,
Kerrie Biddell,
UT,
Fela Kuti,
Avey Tare,
R.M.O.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Delta 5,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Names,
Nils Olav,
The Human League,
AZ,
Malaria!,
D'Angelo,
Guru Guru,
Ronan,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.