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 Vanuatu 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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
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 CMW 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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
Cecil Taylor,
Peter and Kerry,
The Doobie Brothers,
Black Bananas,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Iggy Pop,
Sonic Youth,
The Stooges,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Gun Club,
Tears for Fears,
Trumans Water,
Drexciya,
UT,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Altered Images,
Bobby Sherman,
Moebius,
Avey Tare,
Tropical Tobacco,
Joe Smooth,
The Electric Prunes,
Das Ding,
Eric Copeland,
June of 44,
The Fire Engines,
Graham Central Station,
Pet Shop Boys,
Negative Approach,
Underground Resistance,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
New Age Steppers,
Kenny Larkin,
The Dead C,
John Holt,
Eden Ahbez,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Black Dice,
The Alarm Clocks,
Vladislav Delay,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Evens,
The Techniques,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Pop Group,
Tres Demented,
Kas Product,
Moss Icon,
Niagra,
Barrington Levy,
Dark Day,
Half Japanese,
T.S.O.L.,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Doors,
The Index,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Trojans,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.