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 South Africa and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 mellotron 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 The Sonics to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 the Slits. All the underground hits.
All F. McDonald tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Junior Murvin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nils Olav record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Thee Headcoats,
Lightning Bolt,
Chris & Cosey,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Motions,
Adolescents,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Zero Boys,
The Human League,
Crash Course in Science,
Delta 5,
The Blues Magoos,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Boz Scaggs,
MC5,
Whodini,
Inner City,
Warsaw,
Quantec,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Laurel Aitken,
Minutemen,
the Slits,
Minor Threat,
Sixth Finger,
Panda Bear,
The Count Five,
Roxette,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Slackers,
Junior Murvin,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Scratch Acid,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Parry Music,
Ronnie Foster,
F. McDonald,
Prince Buster,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Suicide,
Black Flag,
Flipper,
The Slits,
Soulsonic Force,
Duran Duran,
The Litter,
Fear,
The Neon Judgement,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Grey Daturas,
Fela Kuti,
Kool Moe Dee,
Vainqueur,
Trumans Water,
Aural Exciters,
Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow.
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.