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 Malta and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 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 Jeff Mills to the disco 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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
David Axelrod,
Avey Tare,
The Sonics,
Yazoo,
Kevin Saunderson,
Crispy Ambulance,
This Heat,
Silicon Teens,
Al Stewart,
The Gories,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eden Ahbez,
Amon Düül II,
Ice-T,
Robert Hood,
Liliput,
Altered Images,
The Move,
Rotary Connection,
John Lydon,
The Evens,
DJ Sneak,
Black Bananas,
Brass Construction,
Von Mondo,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
New York Dolls,
X-101,
Gong,
Bush Tetras,
JFA,
Q and Not U,
Marshall Jefferson,
X-Ray Spex,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Television,
The Skatalites,
Ultra Naté,
Anthony Braxton,
Mantronix,
Fluxion,
Kaleidoscope,
Funkadelic,
Franke,
Quando Quango,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Henry Cow,
The Moody Blues,
Howard Jones,
Eddi Front,
Rufus Thomas,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Human League,
Cecil Taylor,
The Electric Prunes,
Heaven 17,
Pulsallama,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell.
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.