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 Laos and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Sonny Sharrock to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The J.B.'s record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Blake Baxter,
The Remains,
Stetsasonic,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Peter and Kerry,
Derrick May,
Cecil Taylor,
Danielle Patucci,
The Pop Group,
Moebius,
Circle Jerks,
Harpers Bizarre,
DJ Style,
The Doors,
Groovy Waters,
Mars,
Curtis Mayfield,
Peter & Gordon,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Hot Snakes,
Gil Scott Heron,
Au Pairs,
Judy Mowatt,
Hardrive,
Maurizio,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
the Germs,
Eric Dolphy,
X-Ray Spex,
Niagra,
Ronan,
Section 25,
Cheater Slicks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ossler,
Kerrie Biddell,
Henry Cow,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Star Department,
The Modern Lovers,
Qualms,
Vainqueur,
Soul Sonic Force,
ABC,
Roy Ayers,
Tubeway Army,
The Blackbyrds,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Easy Going,
Al Stewart,
Boredoms,
Mark Hollis,
Lalo Schifrin,
Neu!,
The Moleskins,
Juan Atkins,
Glenn Branca,
Barry Ungar,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
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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.