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 Vietnam and from Sao Paulo.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 rhodes 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 Janne Schatter to the electroclash 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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy's Rubber Band 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
U.S. Maple,
Faust,
Bobby Womack,
Crispy Ambulance,
Q65,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lakeside,
Newcleus,
John Holt,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ornette Coleman,
Barrington Levy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The United States of America,
Japan,
Nas,
Soul Sonic Force,
CMW,
Kayak,
Aloha Tigers,
The Fuzztones,
Deakin,
One Last Wish,
Television,
Cluster,
Jawbox,
The Human League,
Minnie Riperton,
Soft Cell,
Rites of Spring,
Qualms,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Skriet,
Sound Behaviour,
DJ Sneak,
World's Most,
Rotary Connection,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Althea and Donna,
Swans,
Bauhaus,
Public Image Ltd.,
Joe Finger,
The Mummies,
John Coltrane,
Organ,
Eric Copeland,
Curtis Mayfield,
Dead Boys,
Pharoah Sanders,
Tropical Tobacco,
Nirvana,
The Blues Magoos,
Sugar Minott,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Y Pants,
Amazonics,
The Last Poets,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.